I would like the Chef cookbook network_interfaces to have dynamic values for ip addresses, netmasks and alike for each of my nodes. What works for me is the following:
db_role.rb (block1):
override_attributes(
"network_interfaces" => {
:device => 'eth0',
:address => '123.123.123.123',
}
)
But that is not very dynamic. My idea was to submit the ip address(, netmask, etc.) to each node on knife bootstrap.
The node would then look like so (block2):
{
"normal": {
"network_interfaces" => {
"device" : "eth0",
"address" : "123.123.123.123"
}
},
"name": "foobar",
"run_list": [
"recipe[zsh]",
"role[networking_interfaces]"
]
}
Unfortunately the network_interfaces cookbook does not pick up those values by default. My idea was to reference the node specific attributes shown in block2 in the roles definition like so:
override_attributes(
"network_interfaces" => {
:device => node['network_interfaces']['device'],
:address => node['network_interfaces']['address'],
}
)
This does not work I guess because Chef can not handle dynamically allocated values in roles files.
How can I achieve to run the network_interfaces recipe and pass my node specific values to it?