[chef] Re: multiple clusters and attributes

[Brad Montgomery < >]

We've got a recipe to do this... you create a role, and then an
attribute that just lists all the hostnames. The recipe then looks up
their ip addresses and writes the /etc/hosts file.

There's probably a better way to do this, but this works for us.

You can see our recipe, here:
https://github.com/coroutine/chef-hosts

On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Van Fossan,Randy 
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> How are you guys handling attributes for multiple systems (like clusters)??
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> For example, in cluster, I need to be able to add all nodes in the cluster
> to the /etc/hosts file on each cluster node.   I am not sure of the best
> method for setting / adding attributes for these entries without creating
> something like a separate role for each cluster.
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> I already have a hosts cookbook to add additional entries if the attribute
> has data.   I just do not know how to populate that array differently for
> different clusters.
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> Anyone have any suggestions or ideas?
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> Thanks
>   Randy