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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
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|Oct 2025
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Description

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

    Who this book is for

    Table of Contents

    1. Chef Infrastructure
    2. Evaluating and Troubleshooting Cookbooks and Chef Runs
    3. Chef Language and Style
    4. Writing Better Cookbooks
    5. Working with Files and Packages
    6. Users and Applications
    7. Servers and Cloud Infrastructure
    PDF ISBN: 978-1-78528-901-9
    Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
    Copyright owner: © 2015 Packt Publishing Limited
    Publication date: 2025
    Language: English
    Pages: 278
    Related subjects:
    Computer sciences,
    Networking
    BISAC subjects:
    COM043000,
    COM021050,
    COM061000
    Thema subjects:
    UT,
    UN,
    UTD

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