Ohai plugin that uses whoami.rackops.org to return public IP and geoip data for a node This will fill a data structure named public_info with the following info using maxminds free geoip databases.
knife node show whoami-prod-01 -a public_info
whoami-prod-01:
public_info:
X_Forwarded: 128.66.0.1, 10.189.254.6
asn:
asn: Example ASN
number: AS5737
city:
area_code: 210
city_name: San Antonio
continent_code: NA
country_code2: US
country_code3: USA
country_name: United States
dma_code: 641
ip: 128.66.0.1
latitude: 29.4889
longitude: -98.3987
postal_code: 78218
real_region_name: Texas
region_name: TX
request: 128.66.0.1
timezone: America/Chicago
country:
continent_code: NA
country_code: 225
country_code2: US
country_code3: USA
country_name: United States
ip: 162.242.217.12
request: 162.242.217.12
remote_ip: 128.66.0.1
This is useful for situations where the public IP address is not easily determinatable from within the server itself. For example, rackconnected servers in Rackspace's environment.