[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Bring up the discussion for knife-ec2 --node-name-prefix option

[AJ Christensen < >]

The machines already come with extremely useful names (ec2). Node name currently can be explicitly set or reflects the machine host name, instance ID. No?

I believe the instance ID system currently in use may have been developed by some sort of computer scientist. Hard to say though.

The negativity, and I'll thank you for asking, stems from the repeated requests over time for pretty snowflake node names of varying forms. The answer remains the same, so obviously one might become a little jaded.

This doesn't need to be functionality baked into 'knife-ec2'. Not only that, but naming / host name management, machine DNS (etc) are solved problems during convergence time.

I hope this clarifies my original statement and I'd like to apologize for the negativity, it doesn't really help.

I got 99 problems bit naming isn't one.

Cheers,

AJ

On Oct 21, 2012 10:28 AM, "James Light" < "> > wrote:

Labels are for people who like naming things... like the whole field
of computer scientists. All we do when it comes down to it is name
things and refer to them by names that make sense to us to do things
that are usually useful for some reason or another.

Why the negativity towards someone else's perception of how to name
things usefully?

On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 12:53 PM, John Dewey < "> > wrote:
> +1
>
> On Sunday, October 21, 2012 at 9:51 AM, AJ Christensen wrote:
>
> Labels are for jam jars, not machinery
>
> --AJ
>
> On Oct 21, 2012 11:21 PM, "Sachin Sagar Rai" < "> > wrote:
>
> Ohai Chefs!
>
> Last week, there was a good discussion on whether to bring the --elastic-ip
> attachment into the knife-ec2 and I hope that it will settle down and get
> release on the upcoming version.
>
> But at this very same time, I'ld like to know and bring up the discussion on
> this pull req as well: https://github.com/opscode/knife-ec2/pull/61
>
> I'm really positive about this option as well.
>
> Want to hear about the community on this!
>
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