[chef] Re: Re: Container cookbooks vs roles

[Joshua Miller < >]

We've moving towards "cookbooks in place of roles".  Not being able to version lock roles is a real problem.  Note that if you're currently relying on the role-level precedence you may need to rethink.

On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Ranjib Dey < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

this? http://devopsanywhere.blogspot.com/2012/11/how-to-write-reusable-chef-cookbooks.html

i use a combination of both, if i can achieve my customizations just by means of attributes and aggregating recipes, i always prefer to use roles. Its cleaner, by design roles does not allow any logic except attributes and a run list. If i need anything more than this, i use cookbooks/recipes.

 

On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Larry Wright < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

A few months ago there was some discussion about using cookbooks as containers in place of roles. This started with a blog post that advocated always using cookbooks in place of roles, as I recall (though I can't seem to find it at the moment). Some discussions at work have got me to thinking this might be a useful thing in some cases, so I'm wondering how many of you are actually doing this and what you have found the pros/cons of this approach to be.

Thanks in advance

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Larry Wright