[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Examples for newbies

[ItsMikeE < >]

I am trying to build up from very simple, increasing complexity 1 step at a
time.
I set up a recipe to copy a cookbook file to a specified location.
When I try to specify the "source" of the file via a variable I get an error
that it should be a string

Is there a way to set the "source" to use a variable (that I can set and
override in attributes)?

I know I can override specific values using attributes, but I see that as the
next step, and would like to get this one working first.

>In that case I would have the NTP cookbook have a sane default
>(probably the ones for DR) and then override those attributes at the
>role level. So have a role called "production" that overrides all the
>settings for the various cookbooks. I'll try and gist something up for
>you.

>> I have servers in two physical locations (production and DR)
>> I want to distribute two different ntp.conf files as firewall rules stop me
>> from using common NTP servers.