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

[AJ Christensen < >]

I would be on-board with that; Discovery has always been positioned
this way. Potentially with support for Partial searches?

--AJ

On 6 March 2013 07:37, Adam Jacob 
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> I wonder if we should move some of that into the core DSL. Super useful,
> non intrusive.
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> Adam
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> On 3/4/13 3:12 PM, "AJ Christensen" 
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>>on the CLI, you can pass the '-a / --attribute' flag to get a
>>particular attribute tree from the object.
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>>In the recipe, it'll look something like
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>>servers = search(:node, "roles:bar AND chef_environment:production")
>>server = servers.first
>>ip = server['ipaddress'] # Just a Chef::Node object here.
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>>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]
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>>--AJ
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>>[0] http://ckbk.it/discovery
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>>On 5 March 2013 12:08, Maven User 
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>> wrote:
>>> Hi guys -
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>>> 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?
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