[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: How to get Chef Server to add itself as a node?

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Thursday, June 11, 2015 at 4:43 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> You left out "make sure DNS and/or /etc/hosts make a working 'hostname 
> --fqdn' setup before running chef-server or chef-client".
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> A lot of people leave this out of their setup notes, but it saves a lot of 
> trouble.
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> Nico Kadel-Garcia
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For chef-client, it’s not strictly necessary. We set the node name of all of 
our EC2 hosts to the instance id and manage the hostname with Chef using an 
API-friendly DNS provider. But if you are using the hostname detection for 
your node names, then yes, you’ll have a bad time if the hostname isn’t set.

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Daniel DeLeo