[chef] Re: Creating attributes that are tied to Environment and Roles

[Sean OMeara < >]

You can set attributes directly in environments as well as roles
starting in 0.10.0.

http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Attributes#Attributes-EnvironmentAttributes

Just use the normal override_attribute syntax and you should be good to go.

-s

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Zuhaib Siddique
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 wrote:
> Hey All,
>
> I am trying to figure out a solution to a problem I got and I think its not 
> unique but I can seem to find a clear answer on this in the wiki.  So I 
> have a cookbook that will add your current server to a ELB pool but for it 
> to work you must pass it an attributes with the ELB name which we set as a 
> role attribute.  This would be fine but the problem is I need the name to 
> change based on the chef environment we are using to deploy.  Now I can set 
> a environment attribute but I have different ELB's and they need to be 
> added based on their roles.  How can I create something that is tied to 
> both the environment and role.
>
> Thanks
> Zuhaib