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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:
- If you use the same value in multiple places in the platform and you want them in sync
- Very frequently used attributes so the user doesn’t need to drill-down like version of an artifact
- 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
