[chef] Re: RE: Re: Data-Bag how to use in templates

[Adam Jacob < >]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 2:20 AM, WEINHAPL Andreas
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 wrote:
> Hi Jonathan & Charles,
>
> Thanks for the great hint. I really made a mistake in using the data-bag
> information directly in a template.  Here is the code which will work:
>
> DataBag:
> intChef:~/chef-repo$ knife data bag show GLOBAL NTP
> {
>   "id": "NTP",
>   "ntp_1_for_testing": "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx",
> }
>
> Recipe:
> GLOBAL = data_bag_item('GLOBAL','NTP')
> node[:ntp1] = "#{GLOBAL['ntp_1_for_testing']}"

You don't need to have this as a constant, which is what you're doing
here, most likely. Rather, you might want to do something like set the
 value for the NTP server in a role default, and have the value appear
directly on each node.

Conversely, you might want to just change "GLOBAL" to 'global', and
make it a local variable.

Best,
Adam

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