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

[Bryan McLellan < >]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 12:39 AM, Steve Bennett 
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> Ah - so I guess there is a "normal_attributes" command, too? There doesn't
> appear to be any doco for it?

Not for environments.

Normal attributes are used at the node level. They're usually set on a
node, or in a cookbook.

Roles and environments can set either default or override attributes.
Think of it as being able to say, "everything with this role or in
this environment should default to this setting, or should always have
this setting."

For example, all the nodes in an prod environment could default to a
set of DNS servers, except the servers for a particular service could
default to another set of DNS servers using a role. You might change
the DNS servers for a specific node by setting a normal attribute
because it is a special snowflake.

Bryan