maven - How to add cookbooks from chef documentation -

i new chef cookbooks , working on task. have completed tutorial on chef.io struggling understand how can install cookbook provided @ chef-io.

so of now, have downloaded cookbook. .tar file , extracted it. can see respective default.rb , other files unable how can add cookbook existing cookbooks creating vm image.

is there guide or tutorial can follow ?

in addition josh's answer sounds me want add chef-repo after downloading , extracting gzip file?

just add maven directory cookbooks directory. or knife cookbook site install maven within chef-repo directory.

or maybe want upload chef server?

knife cookbook upload maven see: https://docs.chef.io/knife_cookbook.html#upload