CHAKE-ITAMAE-REMOTE(7)

NAME
chake-itamae-remote - configure chake nodes with a remote itamae

DESCRIPTION
This configuration manager will run itamae(1) on each remote node. This is different from the itamae configuration manager, which runs itamae on your workstation (the host running chake). itamae-remote will run itamae individually on each node, which is one order of magnitude faster. This requires itamae to be installed on each node, and that will be taken care of automatically by the bootstrapping process.

CONFIGURATION
The itamae-remote configuration manager requires one key called itamae-remote, and the value must be a list of strings representing the list of recipes to apply to the node when converging.

    host1.mycompany.com:
      itamae-remote:
        - cookbooks/basic/default.rb
        - roles/server.rb
      service1:
        option1: "here we go"

Any extra configuration under host1.mycompany.com will be saved to a JSON file and given to the itamae --node-json option in the command line. For example, the above configuration will produce a JSON file that looks like this:

    {
      "itamae": [
        "cookbooks/basic.rb",
        "roles/server.rb"
      ]
      ,
      "service1": {
        "option1": "here we go"
      }
    }

Inside itamae recipes, you can access those values by using the node object. For example:

    template "/etc/service1.conf.d/option1.conf" do
      variables option1: node["option1"]
    end

BOOTSTRAPPING
The bootstrapping process will make sure itamae is installed. The node hostname will be set according to your chake configuration.

SEE ALSO

•   chake(1)