[chef] Environment Inheritence

[Douglas Garstang < >]

All,

I'm making pretty heavy use of environments. There's quite a fair bit of duplication and I'd like to implement a 'base' environment, with common attributes that apply to all environments. How would I do this?

What happens if the same attribute is defined in multiple environments? Are they merged together or does the 'inherited' one override the 'base' one?

Thanks,
Doug