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"chef_type"
:
"node"
,
"json_class"
:
"Chef::Node"
,
"chef_environment"
:
"_default"
,
"run_list"
:
[
"recipe[apache]"
,
"recipe[motd]"
,
"recipe[motd-attributes]"
]
,
"automatic"
: {
"ipaddress"
:
"192.168.33.32"
,
"hostname"
:
"snowman"
,
"fqdn"
:
"snowman.playground.local"
,
"os"
:
"linux"
,
"os_version"
:
"3.13.0-24-generic"
,
"platform"
:
"ubuntu"
,
"platform_version"
:
"14.04"
,
"platform_family"
:
"debian"
,
"recipes"
:
[
"apache"
,
"motd"
,
"motd-attributes"
]
}
}
Example 11-5. chef-playground/nodes/susu.json
{
"name"
:
"susu"
,
"chef_type"
:
"node"
,
"json_class"
:
"Chef::Node"
,
"chef_environment"
:
"_default"
,
"run_list"
:
[
"recipe[apache]"
,
"recipe[motd]"
]
,
"automatic"
: {
"ipaddress"
:
"192.168.33.33"
,
"hostname"
:
"susu"
,
"fqdn"
:
"susu.playground.local"
,
"os"
:
"linux"
,
"os_version"
:
"2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64"
,
"platform"
:
"centos"
,
"platform_version"
:
"6.5"
,
"platform_family"
:
"rhel"
,
"recipes"
:
[
"apache"
,
"motd"
]
}
}
Once you have the files in the
nodes/
subdirectory created, make sure that
chef-playground
is
the current working directory. Then, run the
knife upload
command to create the node in-
formation on the server. We'll use this
knife upload
technique in subsequent chapters of
this topic to pre-populate the
chef-zero
server with test data before running other
knife
commands:
