[chef] Pinning cookbook versions to a test bed

["Fouts, Chris" < >]

I have

-        1 central Chef Enterprise 12 server with multiple organizations – Dev, QA, etc

-        Several test beds per organizations – TestBed1, TestBed2…TestBed10 in Dev, different ones in QA

-        Berkshelf API server

 

Using the AAME server and the SAME organization, and WITHOUT using Chef PolicyFile, nor setting up an environment json file per test bed, is it even possible to pin a cookbook version to a certain test bed? IOW, I may want

-        Cookbook1 v1.0.0 in TestBed1 in Dev organization

-        Cookbook1 v1.1.0 in TestBed2 in Dev organization

 

A  valid answer may be “I can’t without policy file nor environments”

 

I’ve been Chef’ng for almost a year now, and this is still one piece of the puzzle I’m lacking.

 

Chris