[chef] Re: Environment based attributes not applied on initial client run?

[Pete Cheslock < >]

How are you specifying the environment?  Are you passing the flag at server 
create/bootstrap time?  Or are you applying it in a recipe or something? 

-Pete

On May 24, 2013, at 8:09 AM, 
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 wrote:

> I recently decided to pull a bunch of attributes out of a "base" role we had
> and move them to our environment as they were getting applied everywhere.  
> This
> worked all fine and dandy UNTIL I tried to create a new node.
> 
> It seems that on the initial bootstrap of a node the environment based
> attributes are NOT merged in.  On the subsequent chef run AFTER the initial
> bootstrap everything works as expected.
> 
> I am using Chef-client 11.4.0 and hosted chef on the back end.
> 
> Has anybody else seen this behavior?  Is this expected?  I haven't had time 
> to
> dig around in the source yet.  I was hoping to save myself hours of 
> debugging
> :)
> 
> I am using the default_attributes method in my environment file and then
> uploading it to the server file knife environment from file.
> 
> Any input or war stories are appreciated.
> 
> -Brian