Key Features
Book Description
What you will learn
- Get familiar with the Chef ecosystem and its associated components
- Use Ruby and Chef together to write effective infrastructure code
- Explore various aspects of the Chef API, such as using search in a recipe and with the help of the Knife plugin
- Write recipes and custom Lightweight Resource/Provider
- Discover the usage of data bags and templates to customize servers
- Extend the functionalities of Chef using custom Ohai and Knife plugins
Who this book is for
If you have used Chef before and are interested in automation of infrastructure and want to develop your own tools to manage large-scale infrastructures, then this book is for you.
Table of Contents
- Introduction to Chef ecosystem
- Knife and it?s associated plugins
- Chef and Ruby ?
- Control access to resources on Chef-Server
- Start of journey to world of recipes
- Cookbooks and LWRP
- Managing servers via roles
- Attributes and their uses
- Ohai and its plugins
- Chef API and Search
- Extending Chef
- (Ab)using Chef
- Test Driven Development of Chef
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