Using hostname and ipaddress cookbooks together

[kingdonb]

I set a hostname using set_fqdn and alone, that works. I setup an interfaces file using harryyeh/chef-ipaddress and that works. But try to do both in the same cookbook, to a system that currently has some other hostname set...

This fails because the data bag in servers has an id that doesn't match the current hostname, even if you list ipaddress after hostname in the run_list, those things are apparently checked at parse time, and the hostname hasn't been set yet. Haven't found any workaround other than manually setting hostname with sudo hostname on the host before trying the cookbook.

Not sure if this is similar to #17 or not. Reporting it here, since @harryyeh 's cookbook seems to be out of maintenance and you might be using something else that you can tell me about, but maybe I should cross-post the issue there.

[noorul]

I am also trying to figure out how to accomplish this use case. If you already figured this out, do you mind sharing it here?

[kingdonb]

I didn't, actually :/ I just settled on a multi stage process with one chef cookbook assuming that it knows how to set the network, and another after that does post-bootstrap stuff assuming it has already been set up correctly. If you have a better way, I am all ears!