[chef] whats the best way to get an external variable/input from user in your cookbook,

[Manoj Thakkar < >]

Hi,

I ned some advise here, i am using chef to do build deployments , now the version of the artifact is one field in the build deployment which will keep on changing and there are times when the Devloper or  operations decide what version of the file they want to pick and deploy.

Whats the best way to expose that variable ? can i add it in a role/node or a databag  or amy be there is some other easy way.

Please help

Thanks

Manoj