[chef] Re: renaming a role

[Matt Ray < >]

Sounds like a job for knife exec?
http://docs.opscode.com/knife_exec.html

Thanks,
Matt Ray
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On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Chris Burroughs
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 wrote:
> We have a bunch of roles called foo-abc-123 that we would like to rename
> bar-abc-123.  I've done several naive searches like on how to rename or
> change role names without finding anything.
>
> Obviously for local purposes I can do git mv && unload-new-name, but that
> would leave all of the nodes with $OLD_NAME in a lurch.
>
> Ideally I'd like to find some sort of integrated rename mechanism. Lacking
> that I think my question becomes: How do I change the run lists of all nodes
> with role[foo] to role[bar] without changing anything else about the run
> list?