Resources
Resources are programmatic building blocks in Chef; they are a declarative mechanism to manipulate a resource on a host. Resources deliberately hide the underlying implementation that is left to a provider. It is important to recognize that a resource describes what is being manipulated, not how it is being manipulated; this is by design, as it provides a high level of abstraction for Chef recipes to be as platform-neutral as possible.
For example, Chef has built-in resources that include the following:
- Cron jobs
- Deployments
- File system components (mount points, files and directories, and so on)
- Source code repositories (Git and svn)
- Logs
- PowerShell scripts (Windows targets)
- Shell scripts
- Templates
- Packages
- Users and groups
Resources combined with ...
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