Cookbooks to organize recipes

- [Narrator] You've already seen…the basics of how Chef works.…We have Ruby files that are stored on any system…we'd like to apply that configuration to.…Now these Ruby files are strict Ruby files,…meaning they contain Chef resources.…Chef resources in and of themselves…is not a way to describe pure Ruby code.…They describe the desired state of any server…and the steps needed to bring that system…into the desired state.…

Now, we could just have a bunch of big Ruby files…stored on any system, but that wouldn't make much sense…for organizational purposes, right?…So we're going to introduce the concept of a cookbook.…Cookbooks are a fundamental unit…of configuration and policy distribution.…That's a fancy way of saying…this is how we're actually going to get your chef code…from point A to point B.…We'll store cookbooks on your Chef server…and then, eventually, distribute them…to any nodes we'd like to manage with a Chef server.…

Cookbooks are how we describe…a particular type of configuration we'd like to make.…An example is all the steps needed…