[chef] Re: Find Attributes in the 'Expanded' Attributes

[Peter Norton < >]

bjbq4d (if that really is your name) try this:

https://github.com/infochimps/cluster_chef/tree/master/site-cookbooks/cluster_service_discovery

This gets used with knife and cluster_chef.  When you launch the
cluster, the nodes are registered.

-Peter

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 1:18 PM,  
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 wrote:
> Hi, I have a cookbook that uses search within its recipes in order to 
> describe
> a cluster. I am using a specific attribute (clusterID) to define the 
> grouping
> (and their recipes as their specific units master/slave...). Adding this
> attribute to the node directly works fine and search finds it easily.
>
> My problem is that if you were to use an environment or role and define the
> clusterID (makes sense if you were to assign this to many nodes), search 
> will
> pick up the attribute only after the node has run chef-client.
>
> I have even tried running the 'knife index rebuild' command and I still get
> nothing. Is there anyway to fix this?
>