[chef] Re: calling knife inside a chef recipe ? or a better solution

[Noah Kantrowitz < >]

knife search is just a wrapper around the search API endpoint, which you can 
use directly within recipe code via 
http://docs.opscode.com/essentials_search.html#nodes

--Noah

On Feb 10, 2014, at 3:03 PM, Manoj Thakkar 
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 wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Here is my scenario, i have list of servers in my clusterA , i want to 
> provide that list of servers to a script , 
> 
> the script will then read this list( of servers)  and will do some action 
> on a file, basically add/remove entires of those hosts in the file.
> 
> How can i achieve this, i can create this list dynamically using the knife 
> search query from a recipe and then put the output in a file , but i have 
> to have knife installed on all nodes then correct ?
> 
> Or i can run this knife query from outside on the chef server  put the 
> output in the cookbook file folder , that also is a process breaker as i 
> have to run it on the server first then do the other stuff .
> 
> 
> Is there a better way to handle this scenario , Please advise.
> 
> Thanks
> Manoj

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