Different sources of attributes
An attribute can be defined at multiple places and it is very important to declare an attribute at the right place with right precedence order. During a chef-client run, attributes are collected from the following different sources:
- Nodes (collected by Ohai at the start of each chef-client run)
- Attribute files (associated with cookbook) are collected during compile time
- Recipes (associated with cookbook. The attributes specified in the recipes might be collected during run time as well
- Environments
- Roles
The life cycle of an attribute can be understood by the following sequence of steps:
- Developer writes attributes in the attribute file, recipe, role, or environment.
- The concerned code is pushed to the Chef server.
- During ...
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