[chef] Re: Grouping servers for an environment

[Drew Blessing < >]

I'm sure you'll receive varied responses, but I personally have nothing against roles. My recommendation would be to use roles but limit the run list items and attributes you set there. We limit our role run lists to 2 entries - one referencing our 'base' role and one pointing at our wrapper cookbook recipe for whatever application the node will run - for example, 'mycompany_apache::default'. We also try to limit the attributes we set in a role and instead prefer to set attributes in environments. 

On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 4:47 PM, san s < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Hello,

I am new to chef..

Can you pls let me know the best way to group servers in an environment - like proxy server/webserver/db server etc in production environment..

From my limited reading, roles could be an option but its not recommended because of manageability issues..

Thanks

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Drew