Bootstrap without Chef-Client Run

[sawanoboly]

UseCase: http://qiita.com/sawanoboly/items/4f363909615d8a76e9e5#comment-dc7a0303492056b66ca8

[sawanoboly]

あー、-W (wry-run)つけてbootstrapすれば一応同じことできるわ。

[patcon]

Could override this in our bootstrap context if we felt like it:
https://github.com/chef/chef/blob/d8172e646d9fbf43e57bca5e20d0ac352ba9a66a/lib/chef/knife/core/bootstrap_context.rb#L126-L133

[sawanoboly]

Thanks,
This feature is assuming the update client.rb only.

[patcon]

👍

[patcon]

Oh hey, I think the more common flag name would be skip_chef_run, but in chef world, it seems the "no-" form is preferred.

What about a --[no-]converge flag for only the knife zero bootstrap command with an underlying var of :bootstrap_converge, that defaults to true? (underlying var differs only so that reading knife.rb is clear.) This would follow how :use_sudo works.

# .chef/knife.rb
knife[:bootstrap_converge] = false

# Does bootstrap without chef run
knife zero bootstrap foo.example.com

# Does bootstrap with chef run turned back on
knife zero bootstrap bar.example.com --converge

[sawanoboly]

OK, --[no-]converge and bootstrap_converge is not bad.

[sawanoboly]

I changed to knife[:bootstrap_converge] and --[no-]converge. And released as v1.7.1

[patcon]

You're awesome, @sawanoboly!