Node attributes - setting per a group of servers

Chef Infra (archive)
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Say we have 1500 nodes spread across our customers.
Each customer may have between 1 and 20 nodes.
I need to define attributes per customer as well as per node and global attributes and this is where I am struggling.
What is the best approach for this?
Having a role per customer?
Creating an organisation per customer?
I am a little bit stumped by this - hoping someone can help.

Ant.

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Doing a bit more research I am wondering whether a policyfile per customer to hold customer specific attributes is the way to go...

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Or - the old-school equivalent of PolicyFile - use Environment files to do the same.

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