Shiv is a quick and dirty hack to use chef node names in place of their hostnames.
gem install shiv
Need to ssh to a specific server? Normally you would probably do something like this:
$ knife node show node-name -a ec2.public_hostname
ec2.public_hostname: ec2-hostname.compute-1.amazonaws.com
$ ssh ubuntu@ec2-hostname.compute-1.amazonaws.com
Try this instead:
$ shiv ssh ubuntu@node-name
Works with any other command too:
$ shiv scp ubuntu@node-name:/file .