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Diego Furtado

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May 2, 2015, 9:44:58 PM5/2/15

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Hi.

I have a question about good/bad practice working with chef. The examples I saw, everyone uses to put everything in the same file, when installing for cross-platform nodes as scenario 2. Creating the recipes separately and adding just the right recipe to run list is a bad practice?

[Scenario 1]

- recipes

#default.rb
empty file e/or common

#debian.rb
package "apache2" do
action :install
end

#redhat.rb
package "httpd" do
action :install
end

[Scenario 2]

- recipes

#default.rb

if node.platform_family?('debian')
package_name = 'apache2'
else
package_name = 'httpd'
end

package package_name do
action :install
end