[chef] RE: Re: How to force convergence without bootstrapping?

["Fouts, Chris" < >]

Yes thank you.

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From: Noah Kantrowitz 
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Subject: [chef] Re: How to force convergence without bootstrapping?

It is more that what you are asking isn't a thing. It runs convergently so 
there is no need for a "force" option. If anything is out of line with the 
recipe code, Chef will fix it the second time, otherwise it leaves things as 
is. This is a property called idempotence.

--Noah

On Oct 15, 2014, at 8:09 AM, Fouts, Chris 
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> Fair enough, that's all I wanted to know - that is - no there is NO way to 
> do what I want.
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> Chris
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> From: Tensibai 
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> Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2014 10:45 AM
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> Subject: [chef] Re: RE: RE: How to force convergence without bootstrapping?
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> I'm unsure to understand what you want.
> 
> The idea behind is that the cookbook is idempotent, doing things only if 
> they need to be done.
> 
> On each run each resource will ensure the resulting state is the desired 
> state in the cookbook.
> 
> There's no "Force" option, as it is the way it works, if a file managed 
> with a template do not match the rendered template it will be replaced. 
> 
> So the only way would be undoing manually all the changes done in the first 
> run. (or writing a cookbook undoing what is done on the run list.
> 
> Re running the chef-client will redo what was done at first time if needed 
> (i.e. someone has changed by hand a configuration somewhere which is 
> managed by chef)
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> Hope it helps, but still unsure on what you want at all...
> 
> Regards
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> Le 2014-10-15 16:21, Fouts, Chris a écrit :
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> Sorry, let me ask it differently.
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> I do the following
> 1.      knife bootstrap a node
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> 2.      knife node run_list add <node> "run_list"
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> 3.      chef-client on node, which converges the cookbooks
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> Normally, re-running chef-client on the node again will not do anything 
> since the cookbooks have already run the first time, meaning I'll just get 
> an "up-to-date" message
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> My question is, how can I re-run chef-client to make it "act" like I have 
> not done step 3 above the first time?
>  
> Chris
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> From: Nguyen, Dang 
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> Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2014 8:12 PM
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> Subject: [chef] RE: How to force convergence without bootstrapping?
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> Assuming you've bootstrapped the node already and assigned it a role, you 
> simply run chef client.
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> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Fouts, Chris 
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> Received: Tuesday, 14 Oct 2014, 5:08PM
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> Subject: [chef] How to force convergence without bootstrapping?
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> Is there a way to "force" my cookbooks to rerun without bootstrapping my 
> nodes?
>  
> Chris