[chef] Re: Hostname Naming Strategies

[John Merrells < >]

On Aug 5, 2010, at 1:01 PM, Ryan Chavez wrote:

> We're starting to think through more of our infrastructure work, and I'm 
> curious how you all approach naming your boxes.  We were thinking a simple 
> prefix followed by an index that increments with each new box that starts 
> up.  

I do that: ws0, ws1, ... db0, db1... etc

> But we're wondering what the best way is to manage that counter.  Is that 
> something you all delegate to the opscode server?
> And how do you deal with host names when you scale up/down capacity?

I'd be curious how others do this too. I couldn't decide whether to set up 
the DNS from Chef, 
or the Chef nodes from the DNS. In the end I went with a single text file 
that maps dns names 
onto servers, and then I have a bit of code that configures the dns entries, 
creates the servers, 
and then adds the Chef runlists for the nodes.

John

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