[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: how to translate file from nodes to Chef server?

[Juan Jesús Ojeda Croissier < >]

Hi tetsu,

Here some info about how to write Ohai Plugins:
http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Writing+Ohai+Plugins

And how to distribute them to your nodes:
http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Distributing+Ohai+Plugins

It's quite handy to use them to save data from your nodes and get
later some metrics or to be used by recipes.
I hope this helps.

Cheers :-)


On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 1:53 AM, oscar schneider 
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 wrote:
> Hey,
>
> yes, doing this via an ohai plugin would probably be easiest, however you
> are free to also set it from within a recipe.
>
> Imagine you designate the node[:conffiles] attribute space, then in your
> recipe you'd do something like
>
> sshd_conf = File.read("/etc/ssh/sshd_config")
> # If you only wanna set the attribute the very first time, not on each run:
> node.set_unless[:conffiles][:sshd_config] = sshd_conf
> # or simply
> node[:conffiles][:ssh_config] = File.read("/etc/ssh/ssh_config")
>
> Regarding the (in)feasability to install/configure vcs on each node, maybe a
> standard webdav server (e.g. apache with mod_dav) would do the job?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Oscar
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:41 PM, 
> <
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>  wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thank you for your solution.
>>
>> For committing to central version control system, git or svn client is
>> required for each node. It may be hard in my case. Another problem is the
>> burden to the vcs. Number of nodes is huge.
>>
>> I'm interesting on the approach to save conf as key/value. Could you
>> detail this? how can I save attribute from nodes to Chef server? Using Ohai
>> extension?
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> Tetsu
>>
>> On 2012/02/14, at 2:17, oscar schneider 
>> <
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>>  wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> you could also save the content of the config file as an attribute value,
>> then store the content to a file on the chef server and set the attributes
>> to nil afterwards.
>> However committing them to a git or svn server seems to be better suited
>> for the job. For commit rights to a svn server you could use the existing
>> Chef client certificates if you dislike anonymous commits. Not sure if git
>> also provides a ssl certificate based frontend.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Oscar
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Brad Knowles 
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>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On Feb 13, 2012, at 8:29 AM, tetsu soh wrote:
>>>
>>> > Is there anyway to get files from each nodes to Chef server?
>>> > I need to collect conf files from nodes and then manage them.
>>>
>>> Have each node commit updates to their files to a central code repository
>>> server, like git & maybe github or your own private git server?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Brad Knowles 
>>> <
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>>> SAGE Level IV, Chef Level 0.0.1
>>>
>>
>



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Juanje