I'm using chef-cookbook-hostname cookbook to setup node's hostname. I don't want my hostname to be hard coded in the attribute file (default['set_fqdn']).
Instead the hostname will be read from a VM definition XML file. I come up with the following default recipe but apparently the variable fqdn is not given value. Is there any idea why this happens or any better to achieve my task?
ruby_block "Find-VM-Hostname" do
block do
require 'rexml/document'
require 'net/http'
url = 'http://chef-workstation/services.xml'
file = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse(url)).body
doc = REXML::Document.new(file)
REXML::XPath.each(doc, "service_parameters/parameter") do |element|
if element.attributes["name"].include?"Hostname"
fqdn = element.attributes["value"] #this statement does not give value to fqdn
end
end
end
action :nothing
end
if fqdn
fqdn = fqdn.sub('*', node.name)
fqdn =~ /^([^.]+)/
hostname = Regexp.last_match[1]
case node['platform']
when 'freebsd'
directory '/etc/rc.conf.d' do
mode '0755'
end
file '/etc/rc.conf.d/hostname' do
content "hostname=#{fqdn}\n"
mode '0644'
notifies :reload, 'ohai[reload]'
end
else
file '/etc/hostname' do
content "#{hostname}\n"
mode '0644'
notifies :reload, 'ohai[reload]', :immediately
end
end