I recently decided to pull a bunch of attributes out of a “base” role we had
and move them to our environment as they were getting applied everywhere. This
worked all fine and dandy UNTIL I tried to create a new node.
It seems that on the initial bootstrap of a node the environment based
attributes are NOT merged in. On the subsequent chef run AFTER the initial
bootstrap everything works as expected.
I am using Chef-client 11.4.0 and hosted chef on the back end.
Has anybody else seen this behavior? Is this expected? I haven’t had time to
dig around in the source yet. I was hoping to save myself hours of debugging
I am using the default_attributes method in my environment file and then
uploading it to the server file knife environment from file.
Any input or war stories are appreciated.
-Brian
How are you specifying the environment? Are you passing the flag at server create/bootstrap time? Or are you applying it in a recipe or something?
-Pete
On May 24, 2013, at 8:09 AM, brian.bianco@gmail.com wrote:
I recently decided to pull a bunch of attributes out of a "base" role we had
and move them to our environment as they were getting applied everywhere. This
worked all fine and dandy UNTIL I tried to create a new node.
It seems that on the initial bootstrap of a node the environment based
attributes are NOT merged in. On the subsequent chef run AFTER the initial
bootstrap everything works as expected.
I am using Chef-client 11.4.0 and hosted chef on the back end.
Has anybody else seen this behavior? Is this expected? I haven't had time to
dig around in the source yet. I was hoping to save myself hours of debugging
I am using the default_attributes method in my environment file and then
uploading it to the server file knife environment from file.
Any input or war stories are appreciated.
-Brian