[chef] Re: Pass an attrribute in the knife bootstrap command

[Jake Vanderdray < >]

Create a new role that overrides the attribute and includes the normal
role in it's runlist.  Then assign your master node that role instead
of the other.  Would that work for you?

Jake.

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Van Fossan,Randy 
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> Is there a way to pass an attribute in the knife bootstrap command?
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> For example, I have a role that has a recipe to partition and format
> disks differently on the master node as opposed to the data nodes.  The
> recipe has a default attribute set for a data node.
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> I would like to override that default attribute with the knife bootstrap
> command (which also installs ruby, the chef-client and configures the
> client).
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> Any ideas?
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> Randy
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