Deprecation: Cloud plugin replaced by the Cloud_V2 plugin (OHAI-8)¶
In Ohai/Chef releases 13 we replaced the existing Cloud plugin with the Cloud_v2 plugin. This was done by having the Cloud_v2 plugin populate both node['cloud'] and node['cloud_v2']. The Cloud_v2 plugin includes a different data format that resolves many of the longstanding bugs in the existing Cloud plugin.
Remediation¶
If you have a cookbook that relies on data from node['cloud'] you will need to update the code to for the new format in Chef 13. On a Chef 12 or ealier node you can compare the data formats by running ohai cloud and ohai cloud_v2.
Here are examples of the old and new format of the cloud data:
{
"public_ips": [
"52.88.253.144"
],
"private_ips": [
"172.31.37.209"
],
"public_ipv4": "52.88.253.144",
"public_hostname": "ec2-52-88-253-144.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com",
"local_ipv4": "172.31.37.209",
"local_hostname": "ip-172-31-37-209.us-west-2.compute.internal",
"provider": "ec2"
}
{
"public_ipv4_addrs": [
"52.88.253.144"
],
"local_ipv4_addrs": [
"172.31.37.209"
],
"public_hostname": "ec2-52-88-253-144.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com",
"local_hostname": "ip-172-31-37-209.us-west-2.compute.internal",
"public_ipv4": "52.88.253.144",
"local_ipv4": "172.31.37.209",
"provider": "ec2"
}