[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Managing Node Info

[Bryan Berry < >]

so if you have the same app in three different instances, dev, qa, and prod, you would abstract that application as a role?

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 9:56 PM, Adam Jacob < "> > wrote:

Yeah, if they are really that tightly coupled (1:1) I would say they
each have a different role (and they probably all use the same base
role that specifies the bulk of the runlist, and those roles just set
the couple of node attributes that matter.)

Adam

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 12:51 PM, jorge espada < "> > wrote:
> Thanks Adam for answer, yes they are truly per-node, for instance we have:
> 4 servers(nodes) called app[1-4] all of them are running  tomcat and tomcat
> is configured to talk to an ejabberd cluster,  but each of them are
> connected to a different server in that ejabberd cluster.. hence each node
> (app1 , app2...) has a different config for tomcat, despite they belong to
> the same services, let say app-services.. so what do you suggest one role
> per instance of the same service ?
> Thanks
> Jorge E. Espada
> Phone: +54 9 341 5692435
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Adam Jacob < "> > wrote:
>>
>> Are they truly per-node, or are they four different roles?
>>
>> Ideally, you would abstract the differences, and then just apply the
>> attributes to each node through a role (or on the node itself, if it's
>> truly one-off)
>>
>> Best,
>> Adam
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 12:22 PM, jorge espada < "> >
>> wrote:
>> > Hi, what will be the right or better approach to store custom (non
>> > default)
>> > config attributes  per node ?
>> > For instance, lets say that I have the tomcat or apache cookbook applied
>> > to
>> > 4 nodes, and all of them have different config files, should I write 4
>> > different attributes files for that cookbook , also for each same
>> > cookbook
>> > applied to those nodes with different configs? Or is better to use data
>> > bags
>> > for custom configs on each nodes?
>> > I know that   attribute is a per-node thing. and data bag is across
>> > nodes.
>> > but I'm not sure how to sort this situation.. or there is another thing
>> > that
>> > i'm missing
>> > Thanks
>> > Jorge E. Espada
>> > Phone: +54 9 341 5692435
>> >
>>
>>
>>
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