[chef] What to pin in environments?

[Steffen Gebert < >]

Hi,

we're pinning cookbook versions in environments. I think ~80% of all
cookbooks in use are pinned to a specific version.

Do you consider that a good idea?

Or do you only pin the version of your application or wrapper cookbooks
there in the environment (while these cookbooks then depend on other
cookbooks in certain versions)?

I'm motivated to drop all the constraints for community cookbooks in
environments and moving them to the particular cookbooks of our
wrapper/application cookbooks, as this will (I hope) ease upgrades of
particular cookbooks (e.g. the jenkins cookbook now).

Got my point?

I mean a server running the new jenkins cookbook now will also use the
newer apache cookbook for instance. However, I cannot easly see then,
which old versions of cookbooks are still running, can't I?

Thanks for giving me an impression, how you deal with that!

Yours
Steffen