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Hi,

I was able to put the installation of a new chef client on a shell script
to be executed after a new system installation. Now, what I want is that
the first time this client/node runs it already has a run_list setup. Is it
possible?

Thanks

Kelly

2

yes you can do it either by

  1. pre creating the node using knife node create , make sure the name of
    the node is either fqdn or the value of -N [while boot strapping] or the
    node_name param in /etc/chef/client.rb
  2. make a json file which contains the run list and invoke the first chef
    run in your node with -j argument, -j /etc/chef/bootstrap/first-boot.json
    this is the way standard knife boot strap works
    regards
    ranjib

On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 3by:42 PM, Kelly Goedert kelly.goedert@gmail.comwrote:

Hi,

I was able to put the installation of a new chef client on a shell script
to be executed after a new system installation. Now, what I want is that
the first time this client/node runs it already has a run_list setup. Is it
possible?

Thanks

Kelly

3

Kelly,

You might want to peruse the Opscode Chef training materials to better understand where to go next. You can request access to them here: http://info.opscode.com/opentraining

Good luck,

Peter
On Dec 29, 2011, at 5:41 AM, Ranjib Dey wrote:

yes you can do it either by

  1. pre creating the node using knife node create , make sure the name of the node is either fqdn or the value of -N [while boot strapping] or the node_name param in /etc/chef/client.rb
  2. make a json file which contains the run list and invoke the first chef run in your node with -j argument, -j /etc/chef/bootstrap/first-boot.json
    this is the way standard knife boot strap works
    regards
    ranjib

On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 3by:42 PM, Kelly Goedert kelly.goedert@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,

I was able to put the installation of a new chef client on a shell script to be executed after a new system installation. Now, what I want is that the first time this client/node runs it already has a run_list setup. Is it possible?

Thanks

Kelly

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