[chef] Re: Prevent resource from triggering multiple times in a single run

[Lamont Granquist < >]

On 08/30/2015 06:24 PM, Lamont Granquist wrote:
> If its really a remote_file resource then those support etags and 
> last-modified-since so it won't be expensive to run multiple times.
>
> Generally when you have a call-many-times-run-only-once pattern you're 
> looking at include_recipe'ing the expensive thing so it only gets 
> created once in the resource collection.
>
> You can also use a definition to edit the resource collection and the 
> definition can check and exit if the resource always exists.
* already exists.