[chef] RE: Re: How/can I update a node's attributes via knife WITHOUT bootstrapping

["Fouts, Chris" < >]

Excellent idea! Thanks.

 

Chris

 

From: Sebastian Garcia [mailto:
Sent: Friday, May 08, 2015 3:01 PM
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Subject: [chef] Re: How/can I update a node's attributes via knife WITHOUT bootstrapping

 

How about a recipe and setting the attribute as 'normal'? Would that work for you?

Sebastian Garcia

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On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Fouts, Chris < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

I’m aware of the -j option to set node attributes during bootstrap. I’m also aware of knife edit, which is needs user input form an editor. This is NOT what I’m talking about

 

If a node is already bootstrapped, how can I set some of its attributes without re-bootstrapping it, and not using knife edit. I know I can do the following in a script since I want to do this automagically.

-        Knife ode show –Fj > node.json

-        Edit the node.json file

-        Knife node from file node.json

Is there a more elegant way?