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+Create roles here, in either the Role Ruby DSL (.rb) or JSON (.json) files. To install roles on the server, use knife.
+
+For example, create `roles/base_example.rb`:
+
+    name "base_example"
+    description "Example base role applied to all nodes."
+    # List of recipes and roles to apply. Requires Chef 0.8, earlier versions use 'recipes()'.
+    #run_list()
+    # Attributes applied if the node doesn't have it set already.
+    #default_attributes()
+    # Attributes applied no matter what the node has set already.
+    #override_attributes()
+
+Then upload it to the Chef Server:
+    
+    knife role from file roles/base_example.rb
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+{
+  "name": "elasticsearch",
+  "description": "Installation application - elasticsearch",
+  "json_class": "Chef::Role",
+  "default_attributes": {
+
+  },
+  "override_attributes": {
+
+  },
+  "chef_type": "role",
+  "run_list": [
+    "recipe[sdc-elasticsearch::ES_1_setup_elasticsearch]",
+    "recipe[sdc-elasticsearch::ES_2_setup_logging]"
+  ],
+  "env_run_lists": {
+  }
+}
+