What is Chef provisioning?

If you have been using Chef for a while, you may have heard about a feature named Chef Metal. Chef provisioning is the rebranded and evolved tool formerly known as Chef Metal. Chef provisioning is the Chef of all things. It serves the purpose of turning your application-run books into code. Now, all the benefits of infrastructure as code that you have come to enjoy in order to manage your server instances can also be enjoyed in managing your entire application cluster. Chef provisioning lets you describe your entire app the way you currently describe a single machine, using resources. Because of this, Chef provisioning allows you to test an entire distributed application at once.

It's highly idempotent

Chef Provision is highly idempotent, meaning that you can run the same Chef provisioning command repeatedly, and only the specific resources that have changed since the previous run will be affected.

For example, when you first run the Chef Provisioning command to create...