Wrapper cookbooks and dependencies

- [Instructor] We've decided to use some community code…to make our web server application a little bit robust.…But how do we utilize community code?…Well, I want to discourage you from simply downloading…the cookbook off the supermarket and beginning to…make changes to it directly.…This is because we don't want to fork…an upstream cookbook,…meaning you don't want to divorce yourself from the…code base that created it.…If updates to the parent cookbook are released through time,…it's great to have access to those changes.…

Instead, we create what's called a wrapper cookbook.…A wrapper cookbook is a cookbook that we maintain.…Instead of downloading their code directly, we wrap…their code with our own cookbook.…This gives us access to all of the recipes,…custom resources, and node attributes defined inside…of the community cookbook.…And if a new version is released, we can simply…plug and play.…How do we do this?…Now, a note on your setup before we proceed with…these exercises.…

For the rest of class, I want you to be aware that…