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--- devops:chef [2016/04/12 07:02] – skipidar
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   * The installation of the chef-client on management workstations
   * Searching of indexed data on the Chef server
+</WRAP>|
+|CookBook| A collection of receipts. E.g. "everything for the DB Server" or "Cloud Setup"|
+|Roles|Role can be assigned to a node. \\ A role is a way to define certain patterns and processes that exist across nodes in an organization as belonging to a single job function. \\  When a chef-client runs, it merges its own attributes and run-lists with those contained within each assigned role.|
+|Databag|<WRAP> A data bag is a global variable that is stored as JSON data and is accessible from a Chef server.
+A data bag is a container of related data bag items, where each individual data bag item is a JSON file. knife can load a data bag item by specifying the name of the data bag to which the item belongs and then the filename of the data bag item.
+When the chef-repo is cloned from GitHub, the following occurs:
+  * A directory named data_bags is created.
+  * For each data bag, a sub-directory is created that has the same name as the data bag.
+  * For each data bag item, a JSON file is created and placed in the appropriate sub-directory.
 </WRAP>|