[chef] Re: Re: Determining if a chef-client run is an initial chef-client run through handlers

[Roger Lam < >]

Great idea! I'll give it a shot. Thank you Mike!

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 6:33 AM, Michael Glenney 
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> While looking at resource counts would probably be mostly accurate (initial
> chef runs don't update 100% of resources but usually way more than re-runs)
> it would be problematic.
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> I would tap the 'registration_completed' handler method:
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>       def registration_completed
>       end
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> This isn't necessarily going to be 100% accurate either but it should be
> "more" accurate.   An example of it not being accurate would be a node that
> was deleted from the chef server so it needs to reregister itself.  Not an
> "initial" run but would trigger this.  I think this is an edge case though
> as you generally wouldn't keep the validation pem around on an existing node
> so this wouldn't happen without you knowing about it.
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> Mike Glenney
> New Context
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> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 11:42 PM, Roger Lam 
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>  wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> I'm trying to count the number of initial chef-client runs through
>> handlers and my initial idea was to compare the number updated
>> resources with the total number of resources and if they're equal,
>> then it's an initial run. However, this is not the case most of the
>> time. Has anyone found a way to do this?
>> Thank you!
>>
>> Roger
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