[chef] Re: Re: How to manage and deploy environments?

[Steve Bennett < >]

On 20 July 2012 23:07, Mike <
 
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Hi Steve,

How are you placing the environment on the chef server? I create
environments locally in the Ruby DSL, then use `knife environment from
file environments/myenv.rb` to upload it to the server.

When bootstrapping a new node, I provide the `-E myenv` argument to
pass that along.

Great, I'll try that. 

 

Be aware that environment default_attributes are overridded by role's
default//_attributes, as can be seen here:
http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Attributes#Attributes-Precedence

Ah - so I guess there is a "normal_attributes" command, too? There doesn't appear to be any doco for it?

Steve