[chef] Re: Roles and Versioning

[Brian Akins < >]

On Nov 21, 2012, at 12:50 PM, Tim Smith 
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 wrote:

>   Right now if someone on my Dev team makes any modifications to the run 
> list in a role I either have to push it to production immediately or 
> undergo very manual renaming of roles / node changes.  Versions would 
> eliminate these problems entirely as I could use version 1 of a role in 
> production while changing run lists entirely in a dev environment.
> 


Catching up on email, so someone may have mentioned this already:


Have a listen to this:

http://foodfightshow.org/2012/08/jamie-winsor-and-michael-ivey-skool-us-on-berkshelf.html

We are thinking about doing the same as RiotGames - using cookbooks rather 
than roles and environments.

--Brian