[chef] Re: Re: Chef 12.5 and ChefDK 0.9 release candidates available!

[Lamont Granquist < >]

On 10/01/2015 12:07 PM, Jos Backus wrote:

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Congratulations!

Any chance we can name resources explicitly rather than being tied to <cookbook>_<filename>? Like ‘provides :foo’?

You can already do that with even the very old provides syntax that was in Chef 11:

https://www.chef.io/blog/2015/02/10/chef-12-provider-resolver/

See the "LWRP usage" and the following note on the limitations of backcompat to Chef 11.