[chef] Re: Chef isn't properly detecting a rackspace cloud server

[AJ Christensen < >]

Yo,

This is an ohai bug [0], has been broken for a while now. I know there
was some mention of the ability to force override enabling the
detection of a particular cloud, but I haven't ready any recent news
regarding it's resolution..

Bryan?

--AJ

[0] http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/OHAI-310

On 29 May 2012 15:35,  
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 wrote:
> I have created a number of servers in recent weeks using 'knife backspace
> server create blah blah'. These have all worked fine, except the last 
> couple i
> have created have had sporadic issues where chef doesn't detect that they 
> are
> Rackspace cloud serves, and so things like node[:cloud][:private_ips].first 
> or
> node[:rackspace][:private_ip] do not work at all. So, two questions:
>
> 1. Why does it not properly detect that it's a Rackspace Cloud server, and
> 2. Is there a way to tell Chef that it's a Rackspace Cloud server so that 
> the
> code above works?
>
> Thanks