[chef] Re: Role search during bootstrap not returning current node

[Matt Ray < >]

I believe you can do a node.save in the recipe to push the
configuration to the server, not sure if it gets indexed for search
fast enough though.
https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/mysql/blob/master/recipes/server.rb#L103

Probably a better technique would be to look at the node.run_list or
node.roles during the run for what you're looking for.

Thanks,
Matt Ray
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On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 1:21 AM, Mark Gaylard 
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 >
 wrote:
>
> We have a role called terracotta which is applied to all nodes we want to 
> run a
> terracotta server. In the recipe that writes the configuration file, we do a
> search for all nodes that have the terracotta role. However, for the nodes 
> that
> actually have this role, the search never returns their own node as a 
> result.
> So for the very first node, the value of the TC_server_hosts in the snippet
> below is an empty list. I'm guessing it doesn't work because chef-client
> doesn't update the server state until it has finished its run.
>
> Is there a way to check if the current node has a specific role before it
> updates the server? If so I can add it to the search results if required. 
> Or is
> there a better way to do what I need?
>
> template node['terracotta']['config_file'] do
>  source "tc-config.xml.erb"
>  owner node['terracotta']['user']
>  group node['terracotta']['user']
>  variables(
>    :TC_server_hosts => search(:node, "roles:terracotta")
>  )
> end
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark