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Mayank Joshi
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Mayank Joshi works for Indix as a DevOps engineer. He has worn many hats during his 10-year long career. He has been a developer, a systems analyst, a systems administrator, a software consultant, and for the past 6 years, he has been fascinated with the phenomenal growth witnessed in cloud environments and the challenges of automation associated with the hosting of the infrastructure in such environments. Prior to Indix, he worked for start-ups such as SlideShare, R&D organizations such as CDAC, and even had a stint at a highly automated chemical plant of IFFCO.
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Attribute precedence


Attributes are always applied by the chef-client in the following order:

  1. The default attribute specified in a cookbook attribute file.

  2. The default attribute specified in a recipe.

  3. The default attribute specified in an environment.

  4. The default attribute specified in a role.

  5. The force_default attribute specified in a cookbook attribute file.

  6. The force_default attribute specified in a recipe.

  7. The normal attribute specified in a cookbook attribute file.

  8. The normal attribute specified in a recipe.

  9. The override attribute specified in a cookbook attribute file.

  10. The override attribute specified in a recipe.

  11. The override attribute specified in a role.

  12. The override attribute specified in an environment.

  13. The force_override attribute specified in a cookbook attribute file.

  14. The force_override attribute specified in a recipe.

  15. The automatic attribute collected during the Ohai run.

The last attribute in this list has highest precedence and it's the one that dictates the value associated with an attribute...

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Mayank Joshi

Mayank Joshi works for Indix as a DevOps engineer. He has worn many hats during his 10-year long career. He has been a developer, a systems analyst, a systems administrator, a software consultant, and for the past 6 years, he has been fascinated with the phenomenal growth witnessed in cloud environments and the challenges of automation associated with the hosting of the infrastructure in such environments. Prior to Indix, he worked for start-ups such as SlideShare, R&D organizations such as CDAC, and even had a stint at a highly automated chemical plant of IFFCO.
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