[chef] Re: Re: Confused about environments.

[Matthew Moretti < >]

From your email it sounded like you were putting your environment file inside a cookbook? I might’ve misunderstood you , but if that’s the case, that’s probably not right. Most people keep their environments in a directory in their chef-repo and then they’re uploaded using knife environment from file

-Matt Moretti

On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Douglas Garstang < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Ok, the plot thickens.

(bitcasa-prod) Douglass-Mac-mini:~ knife-eu2 environment show eu2-prod

chef_type:           environment

cookbook_versions:

default_attributes:

description:

json_class:          Chef::Environment

name:                eu2-prod

override_attributes:

The data isn't even on the server. :( No default and no override attributes. I'm obviously not uploading the data correctly.

Doug.

On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Douglas Garstang < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

I'm missing an important detail with chef environments. I created an environment called 'eu2-prod' with the knife command, and can view and edit it.

In my cookbook I have created the environments directory into which I have deposited an environment file called 'eu2-prod.json'. It looks like this:

{

  "name": "eu2-prod",

  "description": "",

  "cookbook_versions": {

  },

  "json_class": "Chef::Environment",

  "chef_type": "environment",

  "default_attributes": {

  },

  "override_attributes": {

  }

}

All this has been uploaded to the chef server. However, when the client runs, it can't find the data from the eu2-prod environment. 

Looking at the chef GUI, I'm still confused. The cookbook itself doesn't show the environments/ directory, but rather has a drop-down at the top which lets me select which environment I am looking at. No matter which environment I pick, 'None', '_default' or 'eu2-prod' I can't see any of the data from the environments/eu2-prod.json file.

If I go over to the Environments global section in the UI, also there's no data there. I wouldn't expect to see any data there anyway, as I imagine that's environment data that's, err... global in scope. 

Thanks,

Doug

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