[chef] RE: RE: Bootstrapping a lot of nodes

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Thanks very much for the information guys, lots to look at.

I think spiceweasel or a ruby script might be the better option for us.

I’ve missed off my original email some pertinent information.

The nodes I want to strap already exist and they are all Windows servers, I’m using WinRM to bootstrap the test nodes but there require some changes to the WinRM settings, but that is something we can script changes for.

 

Thanks for the input once again.

 

Cheers

 

Chris

 

From: ameirh . [mailto:
Sent: 22 May 2014 01:15
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Subject: [chef] RE: Bootstrapping a lot of nodes

 

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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Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2014
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