[chef] RE: Bootstrapping a lot of nodes

["ameirh ." < >]

Hi Ranjib, 

I launch these instances via AWS autoscaling, so the goal is that I do not have any manual involvement in any process of the provisioning or bootstrapping process.  knife-ec2 can provision instances, albeit manually (unless you have something else triggering knife).  

Using -j is perfect, but I didn't want to mess with JSON in Bash.  -r has been working great for our needs, and I'm not aware of any downsides to it versus -j.  If you can think of any, I'd love to hear them.

Thanks,

Ameir

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Subject: [chef] Bootstrapping a lot of nodes

Hi,

We have a requirement soon to add several hundred nodes to our OpenSource Chef server. My question is: does anyone know a good way to handle this?

I’ve googled quite a lot and cannot find much info about do a ‘mass bootstrapping’.

I will have a list of Environments and the nodes contained within those environments, and I suspect with a little ruby code I could get a script together to parse a file containing this information and bootstrap nodes appropriately, but this seems a little inelegant.

Are there tools out there to help? Anyone devise a good method to do this?

Thanks

Chris