[chef] Re: Environment-specific Data bag?

[Adam Jacob < >]

You can do this just by changing the structure of the items to include the 
environment as a top level key:

{
  "id": "paths"
  "production": { "path": "/usr/local" },
  "dev": { "path": "/usr/local"}
}

So when you de-reference it:

i = Chef::DataBagItem('bagname', 'paths')
i[node.chef_environment]["path"]

Best,
Adam

On Oct 19, 2011, at 8:40 AM, Benoit Caron wrote:

> Is it possible to have different values in a data bag per environment?
> 
> I find it tricky to change something in the structure of a data bag: I can 
> test the cookbook changes in my dev environment, but pushing the databag to 
> my chef-server makes it available to the production nodes, which don't know 
> about the change.
> 
> This could also be a way to have different values for the respective 
> environments (like say, a different path, IP address, etc.). 
> 
> Or am I using the data bag incorrectly?
> 
> Benoit