[chef] Re: Best strategy for node location in Chef-solo - Synching chef-solo-search - Knife-solo - Vagrant - chef ?

[Torben Knerr < >]

I would opt for a top-level nodes directory as in knife-solo. Nodes
are not databags.

Are there any plans to incorporate search into Chef-solo officially?
That seems to be a quite usefule and often requested feature?

Cheers,
Torben

On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Patrick Debois 
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 wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> Chef-solo-search[1] by @edelight has support for node search support by
> putting it in databags/nodes.
>
> Knife-solo[2] by @matshaffer stores nodes not in databags/nodes but in the
> nodes directory at the top level
>
> Vagrant has support for databags_path and role_path and auto shares in the
> guest if configured.
> Chef-solo only has support for databag_path and role_path
>
> I'm wondering if we can coordinate this? Some options I see:
>
> introduce chef-solo node_path config parameter (has to be @opscode
> supported)
>
> if yes we can patch vagrant, knife-solo and chef-solo-search, still lives
> the question for the default location
>
> no specific config in chef-solo :
>
> either keep it in databags/nodes
>
> auto works with vagrant
> knife-solo people have to adapt (or symlink) or look in an additional path
>
> either keep it in nodes
>
> chef-solo-search have to adapt (or symlink) or look in an additional path
>
> Happy to supply patches, if we can have consensus on this.
>
>
> Patrick
>
> FYI - Recently I added role support to chef-solo-search ,
> this opens up cookbooks that make of this possible on solo projects (like
> the nagios cookbook).
>
>
> [1] - https://github.com/edelight/chef-solo-search
> [2] - https://github.com/matschaffer/knife-solo/
> [3] - https://github.com/jedi4ever/chef-solo-search
>