[chef] Re: RE: Running chef in multiple environments

[Sean OMeara < >]

That's a pretty old post, but I like the spirit.
One thing I'd change is node.default instead of node.override

Try not to think of "kinds of cookbooks"... they're all Just Cookbooks.

-s


On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 9:05 AM, Fitzwater, Brian K (CTR)
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> Check this post on using role cookbooks:
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> http://realityforge.org/code/2012/11/19/role-cookbooks-and-wrapper-cookbooks.html
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> From: Deprez, Tom 
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> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2014 4:56 AM
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> Subject: [chef] Running chef in multiple environments
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> Hi,
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> We’re using chef to build our new hosting environment, which comprises of 3
> environments (dev, staging and production), and manage our own chef server.
> So far we’ve been using chef environments to change variables etc between
> the 3 environments. However, we’ve come across an issue whereby we need to
> test a new role in our dev environement.
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> With cookbooks we can restrict the version that is used between
> environments, but there doesn’t seem to be anything similar with roles (or
> data bags, which is another issue).
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> I’m just wondering, what do people do in this situation? Should we be
> looking to run a separate chef server in each environment instead of using
> chef environments?
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> Thanks
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> Tom
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