[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Environment Inheritence

[Lamont Granquist < >]

On 06/18/2015 03:26 PM, Douglas Garstang wrote:
> Thanks Galen.
>
> I've already hit a snag with this approach. I'm setting common 
> attributes in a recipe (#2), and overriding environmental attributes 
> in an environment (#12). However, I have a cookbook that needs to 
> modify a single attribute to the openssh cookbook. I don't know where 
> I could put this. There's only 2 places it can go that have higher 
> precedence than #12, and neither of those are a role. :~(

why are you going from recipe default directly to env_override (#12) 
rather than env_default (#3)?  if you notice env_default is designed to 
be overridden by roles ("production is this way except for where i 
decide to fiddle with things") while env_override is designed to 
override roles and nearly everything else ("production is this way 
because I say so no exceptions, period").