[chef] Re: Default attribute for knife ssh in the clouds?

[Nick Peirson < >]

On 26/07/2012 20:14, Bryan McLellan wrote:
> Historically (since CHEF-922) when using 'knife ssh' to connect to an
> EC2 system, you passed "-a ec2.public_hostname" to specify what
> attribute to get the address from.
>
> CHEF-1554 [1] proposes to use node[:cloud][:public_hostname] is
> [:cloud] is populated. It currently falls back on
> (Chef::Config[:knife][:ssh_attribute] || config[:attribute] || "fqdn")
> if cloud is not. I think this would prevent you from being able to
> override, which isn't acceptable. Provided that is fixed, what's
> everyone think about changing the default along the lines of this
> proposal?
>
> Bryan
>
> [1] http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-1554
+1

Works for me as long, as long you can override it. As you say, being 
unable to override would be a showstopper. It was bad enough not being 
able to override settings from knife.rb.

Cheers
Nick