Chapter 4. Writing Better Cookbooks
"When you know better, you do better"
Maya Angelou
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Setting the environment variables
- Passing arguments to shell commands
- Overriding attributes
- Using search to find nodes
- Using data bags
- Using search to find data bag items
- Using encrypted data bag items
- Accessing data bag values from external scripts
- Getting information about the environment
- Writing cross-platform cookbooks
- Finding the complete list of operating systems you can use in cookbooks
- Making recipes idempotent by using conditional execution
