Chapter 7. Roles and Environments
We now know how to manage a particular component of our infrastructure using a resource, how to group together resources, and how to manage interactions between different resources by getting them grouped together in a recipe. We also know how to group recipes and attributes together in a cookbook.
However, in most practical use cases, you'll find that no single cookbook is useful for the purpose of configuring a system. This problem can be handled in two ways. One way to handle this issue is to get everything required to be configured on a machine inside one cookbook. Now this approach has a very fundamental flaw, as these recipes/cookbooks won't be reusable to a great extent and they'll be very bulky too. As ...
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