Chef

Community cookbooks are similar to any other cookbook. The only reason it is called community cookbook is because anyone who knows to write cookbooks can join this community and upload…

In Chef, creating configuration files and moving packages are the key components. There are multiple ways how Chef manages the same. There are multiple ways how Chef supports in dealing…

In Chef, blueprints are the tools to find out and record exactly what is present on the server. Blueprints record all the things required such as directors, packages, configuration files,…

Lightweight resource provider (LWRP) provides an option of extending the list of available resources by extending it features and allows Chef user to create custom resources. By creating custom resources one…

Chef resource represents a piece of the operating system at its desired state. This a statement of configuration policy that describes the desired state of a node to which one…

Cross-Platform cookbooks are those cookbooks which adopt an underlying environment on which it is going to run. Chef provides a host of features, which helps in writing crossplatform cookbooks capable…

certain conditions, it is not possible to put the server under the full control of Chef. In such cases, one might need to access values in Chef data bags from…

Chef data bags can be defined as an arbitrary collection of data which one can use with cookbooks. Using data bags is very helpful when one does not wish to…

Environment variable is a key way to make Chef recipe run on any particular node successfully. There are multiple ways of doing it, either manually setting them up or by…

Definition can be defined as a logical method of grouping resources, which are used again and again. This flow, we group the resources and give them a name to regain…