[chef] Re: It is possible use One workstation for multiple servers

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Tuesday, July 7, 2015 at 12:58 PM, Joseph Djomeda wrote:
> Hello Guys,
>  
> Sorry for the beginner questions I keep asking recently. :D I am a beginner 
> anyways ;)
>  
> We have opted for hosted chef , and in another thread here, I passed a 
> comment on using using ansible local/test/experiments stuff and I was 
> advised to stick to one. In an attempt of doing that I realized I am more 
> comfortable with a local community chef server installed on premise in our 
> office.
There are several ways to do this.

1. knife will look in your current working directory and up for a .chef 
directory with your config file. So you just have one top level directory for 
each Chef server you want to talk to. Note that this uses the PWD environment 
variable (if set, otherwise it falls back to what the OS provides), so you 
can symlink in projects (like a chef repo or individual cookbooks) to avoid 
having multiple copies and it will do the right thing.

2. Chef config files are just ruby code, so you can define multiple 
configurations in one knife config, and set an environment variable to choose 
which one you want. If you do this, you might want to add the variable to 
your terminal prompt so you know which server you’re talking to.

3. Use a tool like https://github.com/trobrock/chefvm

4. Specify the config file with the -c option all the time.

There could be still others, but these are the ones I can remember off the 
top of my head. I personally use option 1.

> Thanks in advance and Best Regards,
> --  
> Joseph Kodjo-Kuma Djomeda



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Daniel DeLeo