[chef] Re: "Multinode" attributes, e.g.: fodder for /etc/hosts file

[Brad Knowles < >]

On Sep 5, 2013, at 5:44 PM, Russell Bateman 
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> Instead, this information would be a resource stored where? Accessed from 
> the recipe how?
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> The specific case to hand is a MongoDB replica set. Each node must know the 
> hostname of all its sibling replica nodes. If this proves too messy, I 
> could just use IP addresses when I erect the replica set using the MongoDB 
> shell.

This is where you use node attributes and search.  There are existing 
community cookbooks that do exactly this sort of thing with mongodb.

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