[chef] Re: Using Tags for Knife Attributes

[Sheppy Reno < >]

Wow, after many hours of trying 'Tags' I accidentally type it all lower
case and it magically works, but apparently only when the tag contains
only the public IP.  So my follow up to this is how do I pull just one
of the tags when there are multiple?

Thanks again,
Sheppy

On Sat, 2014-07-26 at 02:17 +0000, Sheppy Reno wrote:
> In our environment, all of the servers live behind a firewall and chef
> registers their private IP as the 'IP' attribute of the node.
> Unfortunately, our workstations are on a separate network, so we need to
> use the external IPs to SSH into the server.  We have been storing the
> external IP as a tag attribute and manually running `ssh 
> 
 
> 'sudo chef-client`, but this can be cumbersome when working with
> multiple nodes.
> 
> I have been trying to get `knife ssh` to read the 'Tags' attribute like
> so:
> 
> knife ssh name:foo* 'sudo chef-client' -a 'Tags'
> 
> The Tags variable appears to be an array, but no amount of fiddling with
> the syntax has netted me the results I'm looking for.  I even went so
> far as to remove all of the tags except the IP, but that didn't work
> either.
> 
> Has anyone gotten this to work, and if so what sort of hocus pocus did
> you do to create this magic?
> 
> Thanks,
> Sheppy R