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

[Steven Danna < >]

As long as you can override, +1 here.  This often confuses people
starting out.

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Denis Haskin 
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> Also +1
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> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Nick Peirson 
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>> On 26/07/2012 20:14, Bryan McLellan wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>>> 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?
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>>> Bryan
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>>> [1] http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-1554
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>> +1
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>> 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.
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>> Cheers
>> Nick
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