[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Delete node and client when destroying Vagrant VM

[Adam Jacob < >]

Use the REST api like a boss, man. That's what it is there for.

Adam

On 12/7/12 10:17 AM, "Cassiano Leal" 
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>It would be nice to know the reasoning behind not using the REST client.
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>When I have the time, I'll experiment with both before deciding the way
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>Thanks!
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>On Friday, December 7, 2012 at 15:58, steve . wrote:
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>I seem to recall someone from Opscode steering people away from making
>direct calls using Chef's internal REST client for some reason.  I'd do
>it through the Knife object, something like (untested code alert):
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>On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 7:48 AM, Cassiano Leal 
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>Nice one.
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>Just one correction to my original post, the link to my gist is
>https://gist.github.com/4223941 ;<https://gist.github.com/4223941> and not
>the one I sent before (that was a reference).
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>I like your REST approach, though, and will certainly have a look at that.
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>On Thursday, December 6, 2012 at 12:04, Jesse Nelson wrote:
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>meant to say "no subshell" not "syscall"
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>On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 11:04 PM, Jesse Nelson 
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>You can check out the code in my chef-sandbox  that does this using the
>vagrant provisioner class and chef client code directly (no syscall:
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>https://github.com/spheromak/chef-sandbox/blob/develop/Vagrantfile#L52-L96
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>::Chef::Config.from_file(File.join( File.dirname(__FILE__), 'chef',
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>To point to your knife.rb location.
>Pop the rest in your vagrant file, and you should be good.
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>On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 9:03 PM, Cassiano Leal 
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>I was trying to find a solution for that on the web, and the two
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>http://frank.be/articles/2011/12/16/vagrant-and-chef-auto-deregister-on-vm
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>https://gist.github.com/1010660
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>Neither worked out of the box, so I hacked my own solution, adapting a
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>https://gist.github.com/1010660
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>Feel free to use it if you find it useful. Comments and suggestions are
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>Cheers!
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>Cassiano Leal
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