[chef] Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: Re: Re: Re: Deploying .war files?

[Haselwanter Edmund < >]

On 23.06.2011, at 17:04, Matthew Drobnak wrote:

> Seth,
> 
> Thanks for the response.
> 
> I did figure out the data bag item issue shortly after...at which point I 
> tried to create a node and manually specify fqdn and ip address, since it's 
> SQL Server, production, and not ready to install chef on quite yet. ;)
> 
> At that point, when I tried updating the client definition...I killed my 
> server. The node list never returned. It could be I tried editing it in the 
> Web UI between exporting the client as json and re-importing it...
> 
> So I learned a lesson: Don't mess with nodes manually, LOL. What should I 
> do in this situation? Is installing the Chef client the only way around it, 
> or should I modify the recipe to take an override from json?
> 
> I'm going to look at the mods made by Haselwanter Edmund to see if that 
> gets me what I need.

You can set the context in my improved version. Try the vagrant box example 
and play with it. You could create another app by adding a role and a databag 
item (just copy and modify the files)

cu edi

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