[chef] Re: Deleting nodes/clients using chef-client or chef-shell

[Matt Ray < >]

knife will indeed work, I opened
https://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-5166 for exactly the use case
you described.

Thanks,
Matt Ray
Director of Partner Integration :: Chef
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On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 12:56 PM, 

 
 
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 wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am currently using autoscaling on AWS combined with an init script
> (https://github.com/ameir/chef-initstrap) to bootstrap nodes.  So far, it's
> been working great.
>
> One thing I'd like to do, though, is be able to delete the corresponding
> node/client from the Chef server on an instance termination.  For autoscaled
> instances, I can put some meat in the stop action of the script to perform
> the deletion, but neither chef-shell nor chef-client appear to support such
> a method.
>
> I just realized through some testing (while writing this email) that I can
> use knife from the servers like:
>
> knife node delete `hostname -f` -c /etc/chef/client.rb
> knife client delete `hostname -f` -c /etc/chef/client.rb
>
> Would this be the preferred approach?  I'm sure this is common enough of a
> problem.
>
> Any feedback would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Ameir
>