[chef] RE: Re: multiple clusters and attributes

["Van Fossan,Randy" < >]

Thanks Brad,

There are some nice things in that cookbook that I may rethink in my hosts 
cookbook.

However, the issue for specifying all the nodes in a cluster when running the 
bootstrap on a particular node remains.   

The only solution I have come up with is to use a databag that describes each 
cluster and it's nodes or to create a custom role for each cluster..

Randy

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 On Behalf Of Brad Montgomery
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Subject: [chef] Re: multiple clusters and attributes

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