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
Introduction
In this chapter, we'll see some of the more advanced topics in action. You'll see how to make your recipes more flexible by using search and data bags, and ...
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