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Mastering Chef

You're reading from   Mastering Chef Build, deploy, and manage your IT infrastructure to deliver a successful automated system with Chef in any environment

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Mayank Joshi works for Indix as a DevOps engineer. He has worn many hats during his 10-year long career. He has been a developer, a systems analyst, a systems administrator, a software consultant, and for the past 6 years, he has been fascinated with the phenomenal growth witnessed in cloud environments and the challenges of automation associated with the hosting of the infrastructure in such environments. Prior to Indix, he worked for start-ups such as SlideShare, R&D organizations such as CDAC, and even had a stint at a highly automated chemical plant of IFFCO.
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Preface 1. Introduction to the Chef Ecosystem FREE CHAPTER 2. Knife and Its Associated Plugins 3. Chef and Ruby 4. Controlling Access to Resources 5. Starting the Journey to the World of Recipes 6. Cookbooks and LWRPs 7. Roles and Environments 8. Attributes and Their Uses 9. Ohai and Its Plugin Ecosystem 10. Data Bags and Templates 11. Chef API and Search 12. Extending Chef 13. (Ab)Using Chef Index

Attribute precedence

Attributes are always applied by the chef-client in the following order:

  1. The default attribute specified in a cookbook attribute file.

  2. The default attribute specified in a recipe.

  3. The default attribute specified in an environment.

  4. The default attribute specified in a role.

  5. The force_default attribute specified in a cookbook attribute file.

  6. The force_default attribute specified in a recipe.

  7. The normal attribute specified in a cookbook attribute file.

  8. The normal attribute specified in a recipe.

  9. The override attribute specified in a cookbook attribute file.

  10. The override attribute specified in a recipe.

  11. The override attribute specified in a role.

  12. The override attribute specified in an environment.

  13. The force_override attribute specified in a cookbook attribute file.

  14. The force_override attribute specified in a recipe.

  15. The automatic attribute collected during the Ohai run.

The last attribute in this list has highest precedence and it's the one that dictates the value associated with an attribute...

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Mayank Joshi works for Indix as a DevOps engineer. He has worn many hats during his 10-year long career. He has been a developer, a systems analyst, a systems administrator, a software consultant, and for the past 6 years, he has been fascinated with the phenomenal growth witnessed in cloud environments and the challenges of automation associated with the hosting of the infrastructure in such environments. Prior to Indix, he worked for start-ups such as SlideShare, R&D organizations such as CDAC, and even had a stint at a highly automated chemical plant of IFFCO.
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