[chef] Re: Roles with same runlist, overriding same attributes - to be used on same node

[Cassiano Leal < >]

Whatdid you é spect to achieve? 

On Friday, January 24, 2014 at 13:25, wrote:

Hello chefs,

We are testing our chef setup with our infrastructure and came across an

interesting situation. We have separate roles for each application, to setup

application specific files and environment. These roles have exact same runlist

and override exact same set of attributes (with different values, of course).

For testing, we assigned all the roles to one node.

Now running chef-client on the server resulted in only 1 execution of the

runlist. So we thought that it might be because runlist being resolved to same

set of recipes for all the roles. We then created different recipe for each

application and added it to the corresponding role. Now the roles consist of

different recipes but still override same set of attributes. Chef-client now

runs all the recipes but using the attribute values overridden by the *last

role assigned* to the node i.e. all the roles are executed using same attribute

values.

I have tried many different combinations but none of them lead to expected

behaviour i.e. ability to run different roles, with same runlist and overriding

same attributes, on the same node.

Any suggestions are highly appreciated.

Cheers