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

[Nico Kadel-Garcia < >]

This! Definitely this!

There are a number of cookbooks that do not work well, in combination, in a 
bootstrap. This is particularly the case when "yum" configs need editing 
before installing prerequisites for chef managed tools, like Percona mysql, 
or when a host does not have a FQDN in DNS or in /etc/hosts until after it is 
first chef deployed.

Nico Kadel-Garcia
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> On Jul 15, 2015, at 11:35, "Benzinger, Dennis" 
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> Hello Jim,
> 
> you can just run the Chef client with an empty runlist:
> 
> chef-client --override-runlist '' --node-name <NODE_NAME>
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> 
> Hope this helps,
> Dennis Benzinger | hybris
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> Sent: Sonntag, 12. Juli 2015 18:09
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>> Subject: [chef] "Just" register a Chef node ?
>> 
>> 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
> 
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> Dennis Benzinger
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> hybris Cloud Services
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