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

["Mark J. Reed" < >]

Its kludgy, but you could easily script (either via a knife plugin or a shell script) a series of: create role with desired attr, bootstrap host with said role in run list, remove role from run list on newly-created nose, delete role.

Or you could modify the bootstrap template, which ultimately builds a blob of JSON to feed to the initial chef-client run.  You'd still need to get the extra attr from the command line into the template render, though.  A custom plugin would be cleanest but you could also fake it with nonce environment variables (CHEF_EXTRA=value knife bootstrap ...).

On Monday, December 5, 2011, Chris Walters <
 
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> My 2 cents: I would also like to be able to set tags for a node via knife bootstrap.
> -chris
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> On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Van Fossan,Randy <
 
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>> Jake,
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>> Yes, that would work and was my fallback plan.   I was just trying to be more efficient.  Also, since the last recipe removes the role from the runlist, I will now have to deal with 2 roles.
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>> Thanks
>>  Randy
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jake Vanderdray [mailto:
 
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>> Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 11:04 AM
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>> Subject: [chef] Re: Pass an attrribute in the knife bootstrap command
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>> 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?
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>> Jake.
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>> 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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