[chef] Re: Re: Re: automatically updating attributes visible to all nodes

[Peter Donald < >]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 7:36 AM,  
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 wrote:
> On Thu, 09 Feb 2012, Jesse Nelson wrote:
>
>> search seems like the right thing here.
>
> but, the attr for which the clients would search, how would i populate
> that attr in the first place? and how would i update that attr
> automatically when a mon server's IP changes? that's what i don't get.
>
> oh wait.. i think i just got it. a new mon server updates its own node's
> attributes. but those attributes are searchable from all nodes. is
> that it?

Correct. The code will look something like

mon_server_ip = nil
search(:node, 'roles:mo_server')  do |n|
  mon_server_ip = n['ipaddress']
end

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Cheers,

Peter Donald