[chef] Re: Re: passing attributes to recipes

[Brad Knowles < >]

On Feb 9, 2012, at 12:08 PM, Brad Montgomery wrote:

> I'm also fairly new to Chef, but I've been doing this with data bags. You 
> might create a data bag called "build_info", and it might contain an item 
> called "build01".  That item would then list the file names or build 
> numbers that you want.

One thing to be careful about is that data bags do not handle multiple 
writers well.  If you have multiple processes writing to the same data bag at 
the same time, you can get data loss or corruption.  So long as you ensure 
that you only ever have a single process that is writing to a data bag at any 
one point in time, you should be fine.

-- 
Brad Knowles 
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