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What is a Chef "role"?

1. What is a Chef "role"?
2. What is the purpose of "attributes" in Chef?
3. Why might a recipe use a Chef "notification" (e.g. `notifies :restart, "service[nginx]"`) between two resources?
4. What does it mean for Chef to be "declarative" rather than purely "procedural"?
5. What is the Chef Supermarket?
6. What is a "resource" in Chef?
7. What is the difference between a Chef "recipe" and a Chef "custom resource" (previously called a "Lightweight Resource/Provider" or LWRP)?
8. What is "chef-solo" (or the more modern "chef-zero"/local mode), and how does it differ from the client-server model?
9. What is a Chef "cookbook"?
10. What is "Test Kitchen" in the Chef ecosystem?
11. What is "idempotency" in the context of Chef (and configuration management generally), and why does it matter?
12. What is a Chef "recipe"?

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