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jtimberman / rename-node.rb
Created March 2, 2012 07:47 — forked from mpasternacki/rename-node.rb
A knife exec script to change Chef node's name.
#!./bin/knife exec
# A knife exec script to change chef node's name, preserving all the attributes.
#
# Usage: knife exec rename-node.rb old-name new-name
#
# Script retrieves the Node object, changes its 'name' attribute,
# creates new Node object with updated name and rest of attributes
# untouched. Then it deletes old Node and Client objects from
# database, and logs into the server to update it: