[chef] Re: Leveraging node data for one-off commands

[Joshua Timberman < >]

An example of a one-time use recipe is the radiant::db_bootstrap
recipe. The main trick here is that the recipe removes itself from the
node's run list at the end.

https://github.com/opscode/cookbooks/blob/master/radiant/recipes/db_bootstrap.rb

If you're setting up, for example, a lot of Radiant CMS sites, then it
can be handy to automate that.

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Kenneth Stailey 
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 wrote:
> All,
>
> What's the best way to leverage chef data bags to launch something that 
> does a one-off command on select nodes?
>
> Thanks,
> Ken
>
> P.S.
>
> -- from this point on are clues about what that question is asking --
>
> In the past there were articles about using searches on Puppet stored 
> configs to create lists of hosts that were fed into Capistrano.
> http://www.robinbowes.com/article.php/2009100402131050
>
> I'm not "married" to using Capistrano so my question is asked in a more 
> generic way at the top of this message.
>
> The idea of writing a recipe that would be used once seems to me to be a 
> bit heavyweight.
>
>



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