[chef] Re: Re: Re: chef-client auto-registered run_list

[Bryan McLellan < >]

On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 6:37 AM, Roberto C. Morano 
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 wrote:
> It could be a good idea, but I'm looking for a way to do it from the server.
> I mean, that way I would have to modify my nodes' chef-client config every
> time I'd like to add something new to the "default run list" instead of just
> having it automatically replicated on every new node. This seems pretty
> unmaintenable for me.

I would put the run_list in a role, and put all the nodes in that role
when they're created.

Then you can centrally manage the role.

> I'm thinking about running "chef-client -j" to add a default run list with
> only one recipe that retrieve the real "default run list" from, for example,
> a databag in the server.
> It still sounds hacky to me, but at least I wouldn't have to modify my
> nodes' chef-client config every time manually, just once.

You could probably manage that json file as a cookbook_file or databag
driven template. The next client run should pick it up. Ergh.

Bryan