[chef] Re: chef_client: better default chef_server_url location?

[Ringo De Smet < >]

Joshua,

On 8 February 2011 11:30, Ringo De Smet 
<
 >
 wrote:
>
> I am trying the chef_client cookbook. The default chef_server_url is
> default localhost:4000. Wouldn't a better default URL be just the
> server location that the client is communicating with? Since the
> client is first registered with the server, I would expect that this
> location can be retrieved somewhere by the cookbook during the compile
> phase, no?

The bootstrapping chef client running the chef-client cookbook is in
my case running against a server, which means that it has the
:chef_server_url configured. I have updated my client.rb.erb template
to:

<% if Chef::Config.has_key?(:chef_server_url) -%>
chef_server_url  "<%= Chef::Config[:chef_server_url] %>"
<% else -%>
chef_server_url  "<%= node["chef_client"]["server_url"] %>"
<% end -%>

This takes over the setting for my /etc/chef/client.rb file. Works
like a charm for me against Opscode Platform (my test env) and my own
Chef production server.

Ringo