[chef] Re: RE: Re: Clusters?

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Friday, June 24, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Matthew Drobnak wrote:

> That’s what I did, but I added a new item in my data bag, and checked for 
> it's presence if the search yielded 0 results...
> 
> Is that what you are doing (ie modifying the recipes)?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -Matt
Yeah, we have data_bags/environments/{prod,preprod, ... }.json

We access them in the recipes with something like

env = data_bag_item("environments", node.chef_environment)

And the vips are like

env["foo_app_vip"]

Anyway, if you're using git and cookbooks from the cookbooks site, use the 
vendor branch stuff with `knife cookbook install` to install the cookbooks 
into your git repo, you can modify the cookbooks while still tracking the 
upstream.


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Dan DeLeo