[chef] Re: Re: Re: passing attributes during runtime

[Noah Kantrowitz < >]

No, the argument to -j is a file containing JSON.

--Noah

On Feb 4, 2014, at 11:00 AM, Ameya Savale 
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 wrote:

> Hi Ranjib,
> 
> So you were able to pass in attributes using the -j option like so:
> 
> chef-client -j {"key":"value"}
> 
> - Thanks
> Ameya
> 
> 
> On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Ranjib Dey 
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>  wrote:
> you can invoke chef-client with -j option to pass custom attributes 
> (including the run list). This is the exact mechanism using which chef 
> bootstraps (install chef and other stuff on a virgin server). If you dont 
> want the converged node state to be saved back to the chef server, you can 
> use run list override (-o) option.
> I have used same workflows to setup development and other type of instances 
> where I want to reuse my chef scripts but dont want the target chef server 
> to be under chef server, or actively managed (one time setup).
> 
> cheers
> ranjib 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Ameya Ameya Savale 
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>  wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> 
> I had a question, which I couldn't seem to find an answer for in earlier 
> posts.
> I might have been searching the wrong keywords, but here it is. Is it 
> possible
> to run the chef-client command and pass in custom attributes inline. I need 
> to
> write a recipe which takes in a name and a port number and creates certain
> directories and files and setups up configuration on the host using the name
> and the port number.
> 
> I recently started using chef so everything is quite new to me. I read in
> multiple places that you can do it using a json file. If I understood it
> correctly then it seems I would need to create a separate json file for 
> every
> different name and post number that I want to pass in or update the same 
> json
> file before running the recipe with the new name and port, this seems very
> tedious.
> 
> What would be the correct way of approaching this problem?
> 
> - Thanks
> Ameya
> 
>

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