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

[tetsu soh < >]

Hi Jesús,

Thank you for the information.

I work it out.

Cheers :-)

Tetsu

2012/2/14 Juan Jesús Ojeda Croissier 
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> 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
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Juanje