[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: searching with chef

[Nathen Harvey < >]

There is also:

http://community.opscode.com/cookbooks/helpers-search

From: Ranjib Dey < "> >
Reply-To: " "> " < "> >
Date: Tuesday, March 5, 2013 1:47 PM
To: " "> " < "> >
Subject: [chef] Re: Re: Re: searching with chef

+1 for environment scoped searches. 

On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Adam Jacob < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

I wonder if we should move some of that into the core DSL. Super useful,
non intrusive.

Adam

On 3/4/13 3:12 PM, "AJ Christensen" < "> > wrote:

>on the CLI, you can pass the '-a / --attribute' flag to get a
>particular attribute tree from the object.
>
>In the recipe, it'll look something like
>
>servers = search(:node, "roles:bar AND chef_environment:production")
>server = servers.first
>ip = server['ipaddress'] # Just a Chef::Node object here.
>
>Check out Heavy Water's discovery cookbook for some recipe helpers,
>like 'empty ok?', local node fall-back, environment aware search, sort
>by check-in time & cloud-aware IP addressing preferences. [0]
>
>--AJ
>
>[0] http://ckbk.it/discovery
>
>On 5 March 2013 12:08, Maven User < "> > wrote:
>> Hi guys -
>>
>> I'm struggling a bit with searching within chef...
>>
>> I'm trying to select all nodes that have a given role in a particular
>> environment.
>>
>> I realize I can do something like:
>>
>> knife search node "roles:<rolename>" -E <environmentname>
>>
>> But how do I get things like the ip address from that object?
>