[chef] Re: Skip a recipe on a specific node

[Peter Donald < >]

On Friday, March 16, 2012, Jesse Campbell <
 
 ">
 > wrote:
> What is the best way to exclude running the remove validation key
> recipe on just the chef server node?
> I can think of a few ways to handle it:
> 1. Different role for the chef server that doesn't include that recipe
> 2. remove validation key in its own role
> 3. modify the validation key removal recipe to check for the existence
> of /etc/chef/server.rb and does nothing if it sees that file
>
> 1 means needing to remember to copy any additions to base into the
> chef server role
> 2 means remembering to include the remove validation key role every time
> 3 means modifying the cookbook as supplied
>
> I like 3 the best because it doesn't require anyone to remember
> something... but are there better options I'm not thinking of?

We tried other approaches but after a mistake that resulted in trauling through backups we ended up deciding 3 was the best approach. We also talked about supplying the recipe in the initial bootstrap and having it remove itself after it had completed but never went down that path

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Cheers,

Peter Donald