Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
Provider
platform-specific implementation of a resource (such as apt or useradd); commonly re-
ferred to as the “how”
Recipe
a set of instructions written in Chef's Ruby DSL that instructs the Chef Client what com-
mands to execute on a target node
Resource
cross-platform abstraction of an item managed by Chef (such as a package or user); com-
monly referred to as the “what”
Role
a logical group of recipes or other roles
Ruby
an object-oriented programming language that is the base language in which Chef Client
is executed
Run List
an ordered list of recipes or roles that are applied to a Chef node
in the order specified
Template
embedded Ruby templates that are rendered or compiled on a target node