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Asked: 2026-05-28T14:14:14+00:00

This is a super basic task, but I can’t find documentation on it. I

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This is a super basic task, but I can’t find documentation on it. I am booting EC2 machines using a chef-server and chef. If that fails i would like to fix the recipes and then reinstall the role and recipes on that machine without taking the node out and creating it again. I cannot find the command that does that.

If I run chef-client on the machine I get:

chef-client
[Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:23:58 +0000] INFO: *** Chef 0.10.0 ***
[Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:23:59 +0000] INFO: Run List is []
[Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:23:59 +0000] INFO: Run List expands to []
[Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:23:59 +0000] INFO: Starting Chef Run for gidsy-staging-web
[Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:23:59 +0000] INFO: Loading cookbooks []
[Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:23:59 +0000] WARN: Node gidsy-staging-web has an empty run list.
[Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:23:59 +0000] INFO: Chef Run complete in 0.508629 seconds
[Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:23:59 +0000] INFO: Running report handlers
[Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:23:59 +0000] INFO: Report handlers complete

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  1. Editorial Team

    I have encountered the same issue and this is how I have resolved the issue.

    First, I apply the role(s) in question to the instance using knife:

    $ knife node run_list add [NODE] [ENTRY]

Be sure and include the items in [ENTRY] in quotes (for example, "role[my-role]").

    Once the role has been applied to the EC2 instance, I then invoke chef-client on the instance in question.

    $ sudo chef-client

    This should speed up your development cycle substantially.

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