[chef] Re: Environment Inheritence

[Drew Blessing < >]

You can create a base role with attributes that apply to all environments.  Then set specific attributes in environments. Note that roles have a higher precedence than environments, though. 

When you say you're heavily using environments are you overloading the definition of an environment to include locations/datacenter or something? If so, you might be abusing environments :) Roles/role cookbooks or something else might be more appropriate. Something to think about.

On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 12:48 PM Douglas Garstang < "> > wrote:

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