[chef] Re: Re: how scrub client info out of recipes and cookbooks but also preserve commit history?


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  • From: Bryan Berry < >
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  • Subject: [chef] Re: Re: how scrub client info out of recipes and cookbooks but also preserve commit history?
  • Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2011 18:56:41 +0200

Also, do you use data bags for corporate defaults? I could see using data bags for admin user accounts and server names

On Oct 2, 2011 6:52 PM, "Bryan Berry" < "> > wrote:
> Centrally then, the only things you change for a customer are the node
> attributes?
> On Oct 2, 2011 6:50 PM, "Joshua Miller" < "> > wrote:
>> So I have been working with my team to make sure cookbooks are generalized
> as much as possible for apps. Define as much as we can using attributes and
> use roles. For some things that does not work then we try to create a
> company cookbook that has recipes like apache site definitions and such. I
> know this does not answer your got question but it's how I address the
> general problem.
>>
>> Joshua
>>
>> On Oct 2, 2011, at 7:31 AM, Bryan Berry < "> > wrote:
>>
>>> perhaps this is a dumb question, but is there is a straightforward way to
> scrub my recipes and cookbooks of references to a particular customer and at
> the same time maintain commit history? For example, say I have 1 recipe
> popular_framework that has references to a customer's internal
> infrastructure. Over time I will make changes to that recipe. How can I
> preserve the commit history as I merge those changes into my public github
> recipe but filter out anything specific to the customer?
>>>



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