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Sachit Batra
Sachit Batra

Reputation: 13

Can a Chef Server have multiple workstations?

We have a predefined configuration of the infrastructure where the nodes have a particular runlist of recipes controlled using a central Chef server and workstation.

I want to implement a knife command to force a deploy recipe to be run on all the nodes. Is it possible just to run the knife -o recipe command from a new workstation and let the server sync all the recipes from the central workstation itself?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 221

Answers (1)

coderanger
coderanger

Reputation: 54181

Yes, you can use multiple workstations, but not quite the way you describe. When you push a cookbook (or policy) it gets uploaded into the Chef Server. All client nodes only talk to your Chef Server, not the workstation. That includes cookbooks and run lists (unless overridden with -o as you noted). So you can run knife ssh somequery sudo chef-client from any workstation any have it function the same.

Upvotes: 1

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