[chef] Re: Re: Re: Where to keep your <node>.json files?

[Torben Knerr < >]

@AJ: how do you keep track of modifications to nodes, e.g. who added a new role or cookbook? Does Chef Server keep track of that?

I was thinking that infrastructure-as-code wise one would keep the nodes in source control as well, as I would do for databags (and I see good reasons for doing that). Is this just a matter of taste or did I miss something?

Cheers,
Torben

Am 23.04.2012 10:59 schrieb "AJ Christensen" < "> >:

I don't keep these. We only store them for backups when deleting
nodes, in the event that some data required for recovery is persisted
to node data.

I wouldn't recommend the overhead of ensuring nodes are synchronized
from server to disk and back, but perhaps a tool could be built for it
(jenkins?)

Embrace chaos, destroy nodes regularly -- build for failure.

--AJ

2012/4/23 Motiejus Jakštys < "> >:
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 07:36, Torben Knerr < "> > wrote:
>> Ohai Chefs,
>>
>> But where do you keep these files? I was considering to put them under
>> chef-repo/nodes as the chef-repo git repo seems to be the right place for
>> me. But since there is no such directory in the default chef-repo structure
>> I was wondering if you guys know a better place for it?
>
> Well, I am using this directory for this purpose.
>
> --
> Motiejus Jakštys