[chef] Re: Export/Import clients from one chef server to another

[JOHN HASTY < >]

I had the same issue a few weeks ago and someone pointed me to this link which worked great.

http://www.getchef.com/blog/2013/03/12/5106/ 



JOHN HASTY
Software as a Service - DevOps
Software Group

Phone: 1-512-804-9968 E-mail:  " target="_blank">	2407 S Congress Ave Ste E-350 Austin, TX 78704 United States

Chris Sibbitt ---02/19/2014 04:21:55 PM---Hello. I'm preparing to upgrade from Chef Server 10 to 11 on a newly built server and I'm looking fo

From:	Chris Sibbitt <
 >
To:	"
 " <
 >, 
Date:	02/19/2014 04:21 PM
Subject:	[chef] Export/Import clients from one chef server to another

---

Hello. I’m preparing to upgrade from Chef Server 10 to 11 on a newly built server and I’m looking for a way to export/import my node and client records so that all of the machines do not need to be re-keyed. The problem I’m running into is that I can’t seem to find a way to explicitly set the public key of a client. I tried `knife client edit` and it looks like it would work, but it actually doesn’t change the key. I’ve also tried in shef by using the API to pull down a client object, update the client.public_key and then save it back, and that doesn’t work either. 
 
Lastly, I found a knife plugin called “client from file” (https://gist.github.com/mhalligan/3101750) which uses a similar technique to my shef experiment, but still no luck.
 
Can anyone tell me how to set the public key of a client? Alternately is there some existing process for how to migrate node/client objects from one server to another that I’m just overlooking?
 
My next step is to go spelunking in the postgres DB and see if I can just jigger the public key in there. Will that work? Is there a better way?