[chef] Re: Possibilities for node_name in Chef client configuration

[Adam Jacob < >]

Set node_name to what you want in /etc/chef/client.rb.

Or, write a library in a cookbook that is something like

```ruby

module Normalize

  def site_name

    # stuff, where @name is the node name

  end

end

Chef::Node.extend(Normalize)

```

Then you can call it with:

```ruby

node.site_name

```

From anywhere.

Adam

On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 7:45 AM, Jeff Blaine < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

The default client.rb setting for node_name is "what Ohai determined to
be the FQDN of the node"

In our environment, this causes a total mess. Due to many factors
outside of our control:

* node['fqdn'] for some nodes is of the form: foo
* node['fqdn'] for some nodes is of the form: foo.DOMAIN
* node['fqdn'] for some nodes is of the form: foo.domain

That's a real party when using knife, let me tell you.

Because of this, we clearly want to normalize our node *object* names.

How does one reference the current node object in client.rb so that I
can effectively do something like:

    def site_normalize
      # stuff
    end

    node_name site_normalize(the_node_fqdn)

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