Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook Second Edition

Over 80 recipes to automate your cloud and server infrastructure with Chef and its associated toolset

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited

By: Matthias Marschall

Paid access

|Sep 2025

E-Book €29.99Institutions €128.95

Key Features

Book Description

This book is for system engineers and administrators who have a fundamental understanding of information management systems and infrastructure. It helps if you've already played around with Chef; however, this book covers all the important topics you will need to know. If you don't want to dig through a whole book before you can get started, this book is for you, as it features a set of independent recipes you can try out immediately.

What you will learn

Set up your local development and testing environment for Chef
Debug your cookbooks and Chef runs by using the numerous inspection and logging facilities of Chef
Drive your cookbooks from external data or nodespecific attributes
Manage and scale your cloud infrastructure by automating your configuration management
Extend Chef to meet your advanced needs by creating custom plugins for knife and Ohai
Test your Chef cookbooks and infrastructure by writing examples

Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook Second Edition

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Book Description

What you will learn

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