To Make a New Cookbook

Create a new repo in Github and copy the link
From the terminal, navigate to the cookbooks directory in my chef_repo directory and run git clone <link>
Now run chef generate cookbook <COOKBOOK_PATH/COOKBOOK_NAME> (options) from the directory that you want to parent your cookbook

Before Uploading Policy to Chef Server...

Code changes for hardening cookbook

adding / editing cookbook files
adding / editing InSpec profiles

Make sure everything passes

Converge all resources successfully.
All tests pass.

Update version in metatdata.rb

Commit and Push to Github

Here's a good link for branching and committing.

Now put this version into production

go to Chef workflow #2 on "Install and upload policy to Chef server" to deploy