Chef environment on remote machines about chef-provisioning

[jkeiser]

You can use with_chef_environment or chef_environment to set it:

with_chef_environment 'environment' # applies to all machines after this point
machine 'machine' do
  chef_environment 'environmentB' # applies just to this machine
end

I've never been super clear on what the -E does in general, but perhaps it should affect the current environment--before just going off and doing that, we'll need to find out how it currently affects chef-client to make sure we're not overloading something we shouldn't be overloading.

[msaspence]

Being fairly new my self all I can say is it changes node.chef_environment which is what I am using to get the relevant info out of a data bag. So I don't know what the wider implication of that would be

But for now I can just do

with_chef_environment node.chef_environment

[jkeiser]

Cool :) I will leave this open so I can track that down!

[randomcamel]

Closing, since the functionality is available through clear other means.