[chef] Re: RE: Re: Re: Re: Re: Examples for newbies

[Joshua Timberman < >]

Hello!

On Jun 22, 2011, at 8:42 AM, Matthew Drobnak wrote:

> As I said in my thread, some of the documentation is there...it's just 
> there's a steep curve even with it.
> 
> I'm still having trouble grasping when I need a recipe vs a cookbook, for 
> example...


You always need a recipe, which are grouped in cookbooks. The idea of a 
cookbook is its a "package" of assets related to managing a particular piece 
of infrastructure, like "Apache" or "MySQL". Recipes are applied by adding 
them by cookbook name to node or role run list. 

See the basic recipe rules here:

http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Recipes

For more information about cookbooks:

http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Cookbooks

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