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

[Noah Kantrowitz < >]

On May 29, 2011, at 8:08 PM, Tim Uckun wrote:

> > I would ask why you need to set the ip address and host name and  
> > where
> > else could you put it?
>
> I am just using that as an example. It could be any variable like to
> location of the backup file, the name of the user that the
> applications are deployed under, etc.
>
> Basically every host has some unique requirements and settings.

We try to encourage the workflow such that these values should be in  
roles (or in data bags referred to from roles somehow). You can store  
this information on a per-node basis, but this runs counter to the  
philosophy that a network should have no special snowflake machines,  
they might just be the only machine running a given role. That said,  
Chef itself is fairly unopinionated on the matter, using `knife node  
edit` and `knife node from file` will address this use case.

--Noah