[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Where to keep your <node>.json files?

[Peter Donald < >]

Hi,

And someone just pointed out to me a cookbook that may help you ...
though I have yet to try it.

http://community.opscode.com/cookbooks/bag_config

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Peter Donald 
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> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Torben Knerr 
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>  wrote:
>> But what about attribute overrides on node level? Is that something that we
>> should rather avoid and better do any cookbook configuration on a role 
>> level
>> instead?
>
> We have been able to avoid node specific attributes in our
> infrastructure. Attributes are all in roles or environments. Sometimes
> we store the configuration for a particular application in a databag.
> Then our recipes may read the databag (often based on the current
> environment) and publish relevant attributes from the databag into the
> node - but usually we only do this when we need to use these
> attributes in searches from other nodes. So far ... this approach
> seems to be working ok.
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> Peter Donald



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Cheers,

Peter Donald