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…
Read more »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”):…
Read more »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…
Read more »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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