[chef] Re: How to generate random string at end of hostname?

[Noah Kantrowitz < >]

It is highly recommended you use the raw hostnames as generated by EC2/Nova. 
Trying to change the hostname from Chef is tricky even at the best of times. 
If you really do want to change it, I would recommend doing it before Chef is 
bootstrapped in your own provisioning system (cloud-init on EC2, for example).

--Noah

On Jul 19, 2014, at 11:17 AM, Justin Franks 
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 wrote:

> How to generate random string at end of hostname?
> For every node we provision with knife ec2/openstack/etc... we want the 
> hostnames to have a format of:
> staticstring-staticstring-randomstring
> Example: web-server-hk3dp99x
> If the host reboots the name will not change.
> For each newly provisioned node the random string will change.
> Suggestions on the best approach?
> 
> 
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> Justin Franks
> Lead Operations Engineer
> SaaS, Cloud, Data Centers & Infrastructure
> Lithium Technologies, Inc
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