[chef] Re: Re: Re: passing attributes to recipes

[Max Gorbul < >]

I use "knife <thing> from file <filename>.<(rb|json)>"

example: 

knife role from file my-awesome-role.rb

knife environment from file production.rb

knife data bag from file usesr max.json

I have never used rake tasks you mentioned.

--max

2012/2/10 Juan Jesús Ojeda Croissier < "> >

Hi Max,

What do you use for upload the environment with the files method?

I tried as the wiki says but 'rake install' doesn't look for the environments. Actually, I was checking the code (chef/tasks/chef_repo.rake) and it doesn't do  anything with environments...

I tried with 'knife environment from file entiroments/new_env.rb' and work perfect, but it doesn't need to be tracked by git at your repo so is up to you to track it.

Did I miss something?

Thanks :-)

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Max Gorbul < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Of course you can override attributes per role/environment.

http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Environments

http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Roles

there are sever ways to manage those things

1. files

2. knife

3. chef server web ui

I prefer the first one. Because all your changes are being tracked by git.

Thank you,

Max

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Steffen Fricke < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Hello,

 

 

I’m relatively new to chef and I try to figure out, how to pass variable attributes like build file names or build numbers to chef recipes. So the best would be if I could add/overwrite a given attribute in a role/environment by it to knife via command line like: knife environment edit [env_name] “attribute_key=attribute_value”.

 

Is there a recommended way of doing that?

 

Thanks in advance,

Steffen

 

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