[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Arbitrary attributes for nodes

["John E. Vincent (lusis)" < >]

Forgot to CC list:

You can. Add the override to "normal", IIRC. I've been using roles for
pretty much everything.

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Tristan Sloughter
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 >
 wrote:
> Ah ok, thanks! That works and while I was hoping to just be able to set
> attributes per node with creating new roles for them as long as it works I'm
> happy :)
>
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:53 AM, John E. Vincent (lusis)
> <
 >
>  wrote:
>>
>> Right sorry. I had those overwritten at the role level
>>
>> ~/development/chef-repo$ knife role show mysql_master
>> {
>>  "name": "mysql_master",
>>  "description": "MySQL Master Server",
>>  "json_class": "Chef::Role",
>>  "default_attributes": {
>>  },
>>  "override_attributes": {
>>    "mysql": {
>>      "manage_users": true
>>    }
>>  },
>>  "chef_type": "role",
>>  "run_list": [
>>    "role[base]",
>>    "recipe[users::mysql]",
>>    "recipe[mysql::munin]"
>>  ]
>> }
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Tristan Sloughter
>> <
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>>  wrote:
>> > Hmm, so yes adding the default.rb to attributes works for the default
>> > values. But adding to override does not actual override. I'm still
>> > getting 0
>> > (which I placed in default.rb instead of 1 which I placed in override).
>> > Could there be a reason that its not updating the information on the
>> > client
>> > when run?
>> > Tristan
>> > On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:40 AM, John E. Vincent (lusis)
>> > <
 >
>> >  wrote:
>> >>
>> >> In override?
>> >>
>> >> ~/development/chef-repo$ knife node show db3
>> >> <snip>
>> >>  "override": {
>> >>    "mysql": {
>> >>      "manage_users": true
>> >>    }
>> >>  },
>> >>  "run_list": [
>> >>    "role[mysql_master]"
>> >>  ]
>> >> }
>> >>
>> >> ~/development/chef-repo$ knife node show db3slave3
>> >> <snip>
>> >>  "override": {
>> >>  },
>> >>  "run_list": [
>> >>    "role[mysql_slave]"
>> >>  ]
>> >> }
>> >>
>> >> ~/development/chef-repo/site-cookbooks/users/attributes$ cat default.rb
>> >> default[:mysql][:manage_users] = false
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Tristan Sloughter
>> >> <
 >
>> >>  wrote:
>> >> > But where is that done? I saw this in the training slides... I want
>> >> > it
>> >> > done
>> >> > per node with different values so I was hoping I could simply place
>> >> > it
>> >> > in
>> >> > the nodes attributes.
>> >> > Tristan
>> >> >
>> >> > On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Sean OMeara 
>> >> > <
 >
>> >> > wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> node.set[:num] = 1
>> >> >>
>> >> >> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Tristan Sloughter
>> >> >> <
 >
>> >> >>  wrote:
>> >> >> > Maybe I'm missing something but the wiki pages on attributes and
>> >> >> > their
>> >> >> > use
>> >> >> > in roles, nodes and recipes is confusing me.
>> >> >> > I'd simply like to be able to set arbitrary attributes on a node
>> >> >> > that
>> >> >> > can be
>> >> >> > used in a recipe.
>> >> >> > Meaning somewhere in the node's json place something like, { "num"
>> >> >> > :
>> >> >> > "1"
>> >> >> > }
>> >> >> > And be able to access this in any recipe the node is running like
>> >> >> > node[:num].
>> >> >> > Is this not possible? I tried placing key/values under default
>> >> >> > through a
>> >> >> > knife edit of the node but my attempts to access the values in a
>> >> >> > recipe
>> >> >> > returns nil.
>> >> >> > Thanks,
>> >> >> > Tristan
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >
>> >
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