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

[AJ Christensen < >]

Use multiple Chef Servers or adopt "The Berkshelf Way"

--AJ

On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 2:04 AM, Sean OMeara 
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 wrote:
> That's a pretty old post, but I like the spirit.
> One thing I'd change is node.default instead of node.override
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> Try not to think of "kinds of cookbooks"... they're all Just Cookbooks.
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> -s
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> On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 9:05 AM, Fitzwater, Brian K (CTR)
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>  wrote:
>> 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
>>
>> Tom
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