[chef] Can someone validate my understanding of chef?

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Hello fellow cooks, 

I am looking for the best way to structure the following. 

We have several legacy java websites running apache, tomcat & mysql.

Currently I am thinking about each site would have it's own cookbook and 
branch
in the node, such as 
the one below:
  
    "example.com": {
        "name":"example.com",
        
"admin":"
 ",
       
        "url":"example.com",  
        "aliases":["www.example.com","example.co.uk","www.example.co.uk"],
        "tomcat_port":"41511",        
        "jdbc_url":"jjdbc:mysql://host:3306",
        "jdbc_user":"db",
        "jdbc_password":"password",
    },
    
The cookbook would define requirements such as apache, mysql and version of
java, but would 
defer any configuration to a set of common definitions.
  The website cookbook being a container to get configuration to the various
definitions.  This would hopefully 
also mean that production, staging and development Nodes would be a copy and
paste with a few tweaks.

Does this sounds like the chef way to go?

Cheers 
Jono