[chef] Re: Identifying if a node is being bootstrapped

[Bryan McLellan < >]

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 1:04 AM, John E. Vincent (lusis)
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 wrote:
> Came across a situation tonight that I wanted to get feedback on. I've
> got some standard patterns I use for dealing with TRUE one-time run
> recipes.
>
> Thoughts?

Maybe you are making this too complicated and hard on yourself?

Why is the work done by the resources in the recipe not idempotent?
If that is complicated, why not wrap the whole recipe in a wrapper
that prevents it from happening again?

unless File.exists('/opt/app/.done')
  # do stuff

  # done with stuff
  file "/opt/app/.done"
end

If you do a lot of on every system, maybe a 'bootstrap' role that is
in the beginning of a run list for all nodes that contains the
bootstrap recipes?

Bryan