[chef] What does the "supports" directive in a cookbook's metadata really do?

[Stephen Corbesero < >]

 

Does the “supports” directive in a cookbooks metadata.rb file do anything, or is it just a piece of documentation.

 

I assumed it would restrict the execution  of cookbook recipes to only run on nodes with the support’ed platform, but that does not seem o be case.

 

 

 

 

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Stephen Corbesero, Performance Engineer