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

[Brad Knowles < >]

On Mar 9, 2012, at 12:41 PM, John E. Vincent (lusis) wrote:

> The question still stands (and I think there's a valid use case for
> it). A good example has already come up several times - changing the
> hostname of a system. You only need to do it once, reload ohai, and
> continue on with the run. It's not something you need to do more than
> once and it's not something you WANT to do every single run.

With hostname, you can keep that recipe in the run_list.  Check to see that 
the hostname is of the format you want with an only_if/not_if guard, but the 
rest can stay there without any risk of harming anything.

We do this today, and it is precisely for the hostname issue.

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Brad Knowles 
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