Chef Tutorials: List Of Chef Tools and their explainations

chef-apply chef-apply is an executable program that runs a single recipe from the command line. Is part of the Chef development kit. A great way to explore resources chef-apply is…

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How to run chef-client in why-run mode aka “no-operation”

why-run mode is a way to see what the chef-client would have configured, had an actual chef-client run occurred. This approach is similar to the concept of “no-operation” (or “no-op”):…

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chef-internal

Chef Internal – How Chef maintain the state of each resources internally?

Chef Client A chef-client is an agent that runs locally on every node that is under management by Chef. The chef-client executable can be run as a daemon. When a…

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What is the significance of the default directory under chef cookbook /templates?

What is the significance of the default directory under chef cookbook /templates? A cookbook is frequently designed to work across many platforms and is often required to distribute a specific…

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