ohai_public_info

ohai_public_info is a Chef library cookbook to install the public_info Ohai plugin and allow tagging of a node with its public IP.

Supported Platforms

• Ubuntu 12.04
• Ubuntu 14.04
• CentOS 6.5

Usage

Place a dependency on the ohai_public_info cookbook in your cookbook's metadata.rb

depends 'ohai_public_info'

Then, in a recipe:

ohai_public_info 'default'

Resources

ohai_public_info

Install ohai plugin_info plugin (which populates attributes like node['public_info']['remote_ip'])

public_ip_tag

Tags the node with its node['public_info']['remote_ip'] attribute in the following form: RemoteIP:{remote_ip}, but will not add the tag if the node's 'normal' IP matches its public IP.

Examples

Install ohai plugin info and tag a node with its plublic ip

ohai_public_info 'default'
public_ip_tag 'default'

$- knife node show just-a-node

node Name:   just-a-node
Environment: production
FQDN:        just-a-node.example.com
IP:          10.0.0.1
...
Tags:        RemoteIP:9.8.7.6

Authors

Author:: Rackspace (devops-chef@rackspace.com)

License

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