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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…

Libraries in Chef provides a place to encapsulate compiled logic so that the cookbook recipes remain neat and clean. Creating the Library Step1 − Create a helper method in cookbook’s library.…

Recipes are the key building blocks of cookbook which is basically Ruby code. It is possible to use all of the Ruby language features inside the Chef recipe. Most of…