Skip bootstrap after provisioning

[shanmugakarna]

Hi,
Is it possible to skip bootstrapping the node after provisioning, and just use the IP of the node else where.
Having a requirement, that does not need the provisioned node to be part of chef
thanks

[jjasghar]

So, to provision a few machines with the machine resource, but not install chef-client on the provisioned machines?

[shanmugakarna]

Yes @jjasghar , exactly
Scenarios like,

• Some machine, not to be maintained by chef
• Need to add some static routes in the machine before bootstrap

So, is it possible to provision a machine and get the IP of the machine to use it further differently, out of the regualr flow.

[jjasghar]

I put some thought into this, and no, i think this is out of scope (for the time being) of this gem.

The point of using chef-provisiong is to provision compute resources for chef. Skipping seems like something that this tool shouldn't be used to do.

Though, in your use case, PowerCLI can do something like the following if you needed:

$Cluster = Get-Cluster -Name Cluster
For ($i=0; $i -le 5; $i++) {
  New-VM -Name vm$i -Template TEMPLATE -ResourcePool $Cluster
}

or even teraform:

# Configure the VMware vSphere Provider
provider "vsphere" {
  user           = "[email protected]"
  password       = "ADMIN!"
  vsphere_server = "192.168.0.x"
  allow_unverified_ssl = true
}

# create a vm
resource "vsphere_virtual_machine" "web" {
  name   = "terraform-web"
  vcpu   = 2
  memory = 4096
  datacenter = "Datacenter"

  network_interface {
    label = "VM Network"
  }

  disk {
    template = "Linux/ubuntu16-template"
    type = "thin"
    bootable = "true"
  }
}

There's a chance I might come across this down the line, but it'll be unlikely in the near future.

[jjasghar]

@shanmugakarna interestingly after talking to @tyler-ball it's actually already built into chef-provisioning

If you do something like:

machine 'testing-ready' do
  tag 'mydb_master'
  action :ready
end

Notice the action :ready will provision and make sure the machine is up and waiting for you.

[skarungan]

Thank you so much @jjasghar. Sorry for the late reply.

Its really awesome, it works perfect.