[chef] Re: Re: Roles and Versioning

[Jamie Winsor < >]

Hey Brian,

We are using environments heavily, just not roles. We use environments to pin 
cookbook versions for all the nodes in that environment.

Jamie Winsor
@resetexistence

On Nov 26, 2012, at 8:35 PM, Brian Akins 
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> On Nov 21, 2012, at 12:50 PM, Tim Smith 
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>>  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.
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> Catching up on email, so someone may have mentioned this already:
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> Have a listen to this:
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> http://foodfightshow.org/2012/08/jamie-winsor-and-michael-ivey-skool-us-on-berkshelf.html
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> We are thinking about doing the same as RiotGames - using cookbooks rather 
> than roles and environments.
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> --Brian
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