Chef Internal - How Chef maintain the state of each resources internally?

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Chef Client

A chef-client is an agent that runs locally on every node that is under management by Chef. The chef-client executable can be run as a daemon. When a chef-client is run, it will perform all of the steps that are required to bring the node into the expected state, including:

• Registering and authenticating the node with the Chef server
• Building the node object Read more click here 

Reference:- This article was originally posted on scmGalaxy.com