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Hands-On DevOps with Vagrant
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Hands-On DevOps with Vagrant

by Alex Braunton
October 2018
Beginner
232 pages
7h 52m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chef Cookbook

Chef uses Cookbooks as a key element in its processes and they are used to describe the desired state of your node/server. 

A Chef Cookbook is an important part of configuring machines when using Chef. It describes the desired state of the machine. This is similar to using Playbooks in Ansible. The Chef Cookbook contains five key elements, which all have their own part to play:

  • Recipes
  • Templates
  • Attribute values
  • Extensions
  • File distributors

These elements are often pieces of metadata that work together to create an overview of the machine. Let's dive deeper into these five elements to learn more about them.

When speaking about a node, we are referring to a machine  whether physical or virtual. The node could be a computer, ...
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