[chef] RE: "Just" register a Chef node ?

["Benzinger, Dennis" < >]

Hello Jim,

you can just run the Chef client with an empty runlist:

chef-client --override-runlist '' --node-name <NODE_NAME>


Hope this helps,
Dennis Benzinger | hybris

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> Subject: [chef] "Just" register a Chef node ?
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> Hi,
> 
> Assuming the machine already:
> 
> - Has the Chef client software installed
> - Has client.pem removed
> - Has client.rb with "node_name" being empty
> 
> Does Chef provide a way/tool to remotely cause that machine to be
> registered as a Chef node (initiated from a centralized machine)?
> 
> This would be for both Windows-based and Linux (CENTOS-/Redhat-) based
> machines.
> 
> I know that we can do "knife bootstrap", but in our case, we don't want to
> push the Chef client software to the node machines, but rather want to pre-
> provision the node machines with the Chef client software and just be able
> to cause the node machines to register as Chef nodes.  Something like having
> a "knife bootstrap", but where the bootstrap process would not include
> pushing the Chef client software to the node machine(s), would be perfect.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jim
> 


Dennis Benzinger
IT Architecture Senior Specialist
hybris Cloud Services

 

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