Chapter 6. Cookbooks and LWRPs
So, we have learned how to manage different components of our infrastructure using the concept of resources. We also learned what a recipe is and how to handle attributes.
Recipes are nothing but simple Ruby code that defines how the system is going to get to a particular state. A system is comprised of multiple components and each of these components is handled by means of resources.
A resource is a statement of configuration policy. It describes the desired state of an element in our system. It also describes how that state can be achieved. Each resource statement in a Chef recipe corresponds to a specific part of infrastructure: a file, a cron job, a package, a service, and so on.
Recipes group together these resource ...
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