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What is a Chef "environment" used for?

1. What is a Chef "environment" used for?
2. What does the "convergence" process mean in a Chef Client run?
3. What is an "ohai" plugin (Ohai being the tool Chef uses for node discovery)?
4. Why might a recipe use a Chef "notification" (e.g. `notifies :restart, "service[nginx]"`) between two resources?
5. What is the Chef Supermarket?
6. What is "idempotency" in the context of Chef (and configuration management generally), and why does it matter?
7. What is "chef-solo" (or the more modern "chef-zero"/local mode), and how does it differ from the client-server model?
8. What is a common criticism/tradeoff of Chef's Ruby-DSL approach compared to more purely declarative tools like Ansible's YAML playbooks?
9. What is a Chef "role"?
10. What is a Chef "run list"?
11. What is Chef, at a high level?
12. What is a Chef "recipe"?

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