Resources
About Resources
Note
If you want to see all of the information about resources in a single document, see: https://docs.chef.io/resources.html. Keep reading this page for topics about individual resources.
A resource is a statement of configuration policy that:
- Describes the desired state for a configuration item
- Declares the steps needed to bring that item to the desired state
- Specifies a resource type—such as
package
,template
, orservice
- Lists additional details (also known as resource properties), as necessary
- Are grouped into recipes, which describe working configu