[chef] Re: Chef and box provisioning

[Nic Grayson < >]

When we were using vmware we had a base image with a static 'template' ip. We just cloned this template then bootstrapped that ip right away. We then logged in a manually updated the ips. Seems nicer than having to use the vmware console to do that. Vmware support wasn't around then so we never had that route available. Hope this helps.

On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Phil Cryer < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

I'm wondering how others on this list approach box provisioning, and other fun stuff like IP management. In my current gig we go this route; hit up IP plan in a browser, figure out the IP we need, jot it down, put notes in IP plan about.  Then RDP to a windows box, run the VMware client to setup a new box, walk through that song and dance. After that, use the console in VMware to setup the networking and reboot. From a workstation, knife bootstrap, and after that, finally, chef. I know there are knife plugins to utilize VMware, are there other (better?) ways to handle that? How are others handling IP management? Can that be done via chef/knife too, or is that just a matter of scripting something that curl can hit an API and setup? Thanks for any input.

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