Consider implementing resources and providers

[martinb3]

There's been a trend in the chef community to implement library cookbooks for anything that is intended to be consumed by other cookbooks downstream. In short, resources and providers are much easier to consume (and extend, adapt, modify) downstream than recipes.

You can see this trend in the most popular community cookbooks, such as mysql, apache2, redisio, newrelic, and git.

[spuder]

+1 With the new chef 12.5, and custom resources this is super easy. Wrapper cookbooks are becoming the preferred approach over community cookbooks.

https://docs.chef.io/custom_resources.html

[hneelakantan]

+1. Recipes are harder to configure from another custom resource.