[chef] Re: Re: Triggering remote actions based on new nodes

[Andrea Campi < >]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 11:04 PM, Bryan Baugher 
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 wrote:
> There isn't really a way in chef to have one node notify another (i.e.
> update something on that node or run chef-client), or have one node notify
> another node's resource.
>
> The typical plan is to use chef's search feature to retrieve the information
> needed (i.e. get the ip addresses of nodes with the 'rails' role) to update
> firewall rules and have each node run on a regular interval (cron or
> daemon).

Another option is to use mcollective to trigger the chef-client run on
the other nodes.