[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Starting out with the opscode platform.

[Tim Uckun < >]

>
> We try to encourage the workflow such that these values should be in roles
> (or in data bags referred to from roles somehow). You can store this
> information on a per-node basis, but this runs counter to the philosophy
> that a network should have no special snowflake machines, they might just be
> the only machine running a given role. That said, Chef itself is fairly
> unopinionated on the matter, using `knife node edit` and `knife node from
> file` will address this use case.


Thank you.  I guess I have to adapt my way of thinking but I am
willing to give it a go and see what chef is all about.