[chef] Re: Registration when an existing client.pem is present?

[Steven Danna < >]

On 6/5/13 1:39 AM, Morgan Blackthorne wrote:

> I'm guessing that because the client keys can be shared that the answer
> to this question is no, but is there a way to set things so that if the
> client name does not exist that it will perform registration instead of
> trying to use the old key? 

It would be possible to create a patch to Chef that checked if the
client existed using the validator client before attempting to use the
client.pem.  I'm not a huge fan of adding uses of the validator client
into Chef, however.

> 
> Or is there a specific error code that I can trap for when doing this
> and detect that it failed?
> 

You might be able to do something with the event dispatch system.  There
is a node_load_failed event that you could potentially hook into.
Alternatively, it is likely possible to catch the HTTP 401 errors in an
error handler.

Cheers,

Steven
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