[chef] Re: Re: Re: Passing parameters via knife bootstrap?

[Sean OMeara < >]

You can specify arbitrary bootstrap templates to knife with the -d flag.
It'll look in ~/.chef/bootstrap.

Right now its hardcoded to default to "ubuntu10.04-gems.erb", which
you can find here:

http://github.com/opscode/chef/tree/master/chef/lib/chef/knife/bootstrap/

-s

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Ryan C. Creasey 
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> I've actually done a little bit of work on something like this:
> http://github.com/rcreasey/waitress
> Although it's nowhere near being immediately usable for the public.  The
> problem that we were having is that we had nodes that were being spun up on
> an internal cloud and given a random mac address.  We wanted to pass
> attributes via knife and then have that json blob be accessible from inside
> the node when it had spun up so we could pass it to chef-solo for initial
> configuration.
> While we're not using EC2 at the moment for this, but an internal xenserver
> pool, we created a baseline that all nodes would be cloned from and setup to
> do a `curl -s http://buildserver/chef/imprint ;| /bin/sh`.  That imprint
> script is :
> https://gist.github.com/412f9588c4c60341108f
> Since the baseline image was configured to set its hostname to something
> based off its mac address, we were able to have a key-document relationship.
>  Waitress essentially provides a sinatra based interface to a redis backend
> where that json blob (and mac address) can be stored, and then waits for a
> node to spin up and issue a GET for its hostname (which happens to be the
> node's mac address).
> So, the tl;dr:
> I know what you're talking about and see the value in why you want to do it.
>  Here's how we've approached something similar and I hope it helps.
> --
> Ryan C. Creasey
> Principal Systems Engineer
> Technology Operations
> IGN Entertainment
> On Aug 11, 2010, at 11:14 AM, Charles Sullivan wrote:
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> I'd also like to see this option available.
> @Mark - I've looked previously and have been unable to find anything.
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> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Mark J. Reed 
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>> I'd like to pass some parameters on the command line to knife ec2
>> bootstrap... that will be visible to the recipes in the run list;
>> ideally, a JSON blob that wound up as the argument to chef-client -j
>> would be perfect, but any way to get an arbitrary string somewhere a
>> recipe can see it would be great.  Is there such a mechanism?
>>
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>> Mark J. Reed 
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> Charles Sullivan
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