Chef Cookbook - Third Edition

Creating and using cookbooks

Cookbooks are an essential part of Chef. Basically, you describe the configurations you want to apply to your nodes in cookbooks. You can create them using the Chef executable installed by the Chef DK.

In this recipe, we'll create and apply a simple cookbook using the chef and knife command-line tools.

Getting ready

Make sure you have Chef DK installed and a node available for testing. Check out the installation instructions at http://learn.chef.io if you need help here.

Edit your knife.rb file (usually found in the hidden .chef directory) and add the following three lines to it, filling in your own values:

cookbook_copyright "your company"
cookbook_license "apachev2"
cookbook_email "your email address"

Note

The Apache 2 ...