[chef] RE: chef-client , apply role

[Stephen Corbesero < >]

There were many responses to this, but I want to get back to the original 
question.  

Is there a way to just get a node into a role, but not have go through that 
role's run list?

The use case I am thinking of is provisioning a new node.  Sometimes the very 
first chef run fails.  If we could get the node into its correct role, and 
chef-client running as a cron job or service, the node will eventually 
converge.

Cfengine used to provide something like this.  It was a failsafe 
configuration that a cfengine run would fall back to if the main 
configuration failed.  It was a way to minimize the risk of disconnecting 
your infrastructure from configuration management if you accidentally 
deployed a bad main configuration.

 

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Stephen Corbesero, Performance Engineer


-----Original Message-----
From: Sam Darwin 
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Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2014 5:29 AM
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Subject: [chef] chef-client , apply role


is there a way to run:

chef-client -o "role[abc]" 

that is, to apply a role without running the entire run_list ?

this should not be ephemeral and have little effect... it should cause all 
the results that having the role in the real run_list would have, update the
chef-server with attributes in a persistent way and everything else.     I
would also add the role to the real run_list .     But I don't want to run all
recipes on the client at that moment.