Chef/Knife running two environments on same machine

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We have a series of cookbooks that are common across many environments. Up until recently, they've always been on different machines. Now we have a requirement that we need to run the same series of cookbooks across two environment files on the same machine.

What is the best practice here for doing this? Simply calling:

knife winrm %server% chef-client -m -x %user% -P %pass% -E %environment%

Is that the same as:

Knife node edit %server%

And changing the environment there? We need to be able to do command line switching of environments. Please advise, TIA!

Two client registrations? Run the second client as follows "chef-client -c /path/to/alternative/client/config/client.rb". I'd be interested in a better solution!! — Mark O'Connor, Aug 04 '14 at 13:48
Have you seen [knife-flip](https://github.com/jonlives/knife-flip)? — sethvargo, Aug 04 '14 at 15:10

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 04 '14 at 16:18

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The tool you are looking for is knife-flip by John Cowie from Etsy:

$ knife node flip mynode.foo.com myenv [--preview]

answered Aug 04 '14 at 16:18

sethvargo

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Went to install knife-flip and get an cygwin heap error on my Windows7 box. Just wanted to add that this can be fixed using:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19259272/error-installing-gem-couldnt-reserve-space-for-cygwins-heap-win32-error-487 – mumbles Aug 05 '14 at 04:14

Chef/Knife running two environments on same machine

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