[chef] Cookbook Attributes Best Practices/Guidelines ?

["Benzinger, Dennis" < >]

Hello List,

what are some good websites or presentations about best practices/guidelines
for attributes in cookbooks? 

For example about:
- Naming of the attribute files
- Naming of the attributes themselves
- Arrays vs. hashes
- And especially interesting for me:
  
  When to use node.run_state instead of an attribute?

  I've seen cookbooks which put every variable in an attribute even if it is 
used
  only internally. Wouldn't it be better to use node.run_state in this case? 
At
  least as long as you don't have to store it between Chef runs.


Thanks,
Dennis Benzinger | hybris

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