[chef] Re: Re: Re: Starting out with the opscode platform.

[Noah Kantrowitz < >]

On May 29, 2011, at 7:30 PM, Tim Uckun wrote:

> > If you have some custom setup (most people do) then you would  
> > create a
> > new recipe to do that and include it in the relevant role.
>
> How about highly specific parameters like IP address etc.
>
> I am sorry if this is a dumb question but I am coming from puppet and
> I guess I still have that the puppet way of doing things in my head.
>
> Normally I set up my node and set some variables like
>
> $ip_address = 'blah'
> $host_name = 'blah'
>
> Then I might have individual resources for this node alone like
>
> file :some_file { ...}
>
> This along with the inheritance of other common roles defines the
> state of the node.
>
> I am wondering where that configuration takes place in the chef node.
> From what you guys are saying it sounds like I need to create a role
> for the server right?

Generally in these kinds of things are already provided via DHCP, but  
you could build recipes to set them more explicitly.

--Noah