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Chef Infra Best Practices: #4 Custom Resources the Building Blocks of your

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Custom resources enable users to add their own resources as an extension of Chef Infra client.

Custom Resources are a way for users to build resources that can be consumed in the same way as core Chef Infra resources.

Custom resource contents are composed of three basic parts: Unified Mode provides the ability to opt-in to a single phase of execution for Ruby and Chef code, vastly simplifying the creation of custom resources Consider the fact that a Chef Infra Client runs in two phases by default: compile which allows for Ruby code to be executed at compile time then the Chef code runs at a converge time.