Knife::Hosts

Knife plugin to print node names and IPs formatted for inclusion in a hosts file.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'knife-hosts'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install knife-hosts

knife hosts [-di] [QUERY]

Copy the output to your /etc/hosts Use an optional chef search query to limit the output.

We add friendly aliases a couple of ways:

1. We strip trailing domain elements (default 2) from the end of node names and add an alias:

10.1.1.1 foo.bar.com foo

You can override the number of domain elements stripped with the -d [N], --drop-elements [N] option, and disable it completely with -d 0

2. Rackspace prefaces the hostname of physical nodes with an identifying number, eg 000000-foo.bar.com We strip this number and add the leftover host name as an alias, eg:

10.1.1.1 000000-foo.bar.com foo.bar.com

If you happen to name your nodes with a leading number and then a hyphen, you may want to disable this behavior with -i, --ignore-strip-rackspace option.

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request