[chef] Re: Node recovery?

[Haim Ashkenazi < >]

Hi Aaron,

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Aaron Abramson < "> > wrote:

I lost an EC2 instance over the weekend.  Is there a proper method to replace it?

In the past, when I simply delete a client from chef, and bootstrap a client using the same node name, it registers itself, but wipes out the node run_list and attribute data.

Is there a way to bring up a new instance and assign it to be XYZ node and inherit the run_list & attributes?

Any reason why not specify the run_list in the bootstrap command (-r)? Do you have spacial attributes for each host or can you define them in a role?

Bye

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Haim