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

[Adam Jacob < >]

Oh yeah - I just assumed you were already on the partial search train. You
heavywater guys sure are lazy!

:)

Love,
Adam

On 3/5/13 11:33 AM, "AJ Christensen" 
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>I would be on-board with that; Discovery has always been positioned
>this way. Potentially with support for Partial searches?
>
>--AJ
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>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.
>>
>> Adam
>>
>> 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.
>>>
>>>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 
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>>> 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?
>>>
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