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Pack Development

Good Defaults

  • Have reasonable defaults for resources included in pack.
  • For example, What would be default value of compute size for tomcat.

Use Variables

Some of the use case for variables would be:

  1. If you use the same value in multiple places in the platform and you want them in sync
  2. Very frequently used attributes so the user doesn’t need to drill-down like version of an artifact
  3. attributes that the user ​must​ change, like name of the app or something like that

The variables are de-referenced during the deployment plan generation on OneOps and by the time the attribute is passed to the cookbook (workorder) it’s already substituted