[chef] Re: Changing attributes in provider

[Lamont Granquist < >]

On Thu Nov  6 12:15:37 2014, Sergey Motovilovets wrote:
> Thanks for the quick reply!
>
> I'm experimenting with synchronization of execution steps across
> multiple nodes using 3-rd party key-value store; and yay, I was
> thinking about creating a wrapper around setting attributes
> dynamically, based on the contents of that store.
> Seems like definitions are gonna work for me, will try.
> Thanks again!

you can also call libraries from attributes files and you could load 
the key value data into attributes there.  you also might be able to 
write an ohai plugin to query the store and load up attributes very 
early.