Mastering Chef Provisioning

Learn Chef Provisioning like a boss and finally own your infrastructure

Key Features

• This is the first Chef book focused on provisioning infrastructure as its sole task. The book offers a clear solution to a specific pain point: learn to make your system work faster.
• Learning better approaches to load balancing and parallelization with this book will save you time
• By mastering the techniques in this book, you will know how to run an entire fleet of machines without breaking a sweat
• This book is more helpful than the documentation (https://docs.chef.io/provisioning.html), with a stronger guiding voice and clearer explanations and use cases

Book Description

What you will learn

• Use best practices to describe your entire infrastructure as code
• Automate and document every aspect of your network, from the hardware of individual nodes to software, middleware, and all containers and clouds
• Create a perfect model system
• Make the best possible use of your resources and avoid redundancy
• Deliver on the promise of Infrastructure as Code
• Scale with ease by properly provisioning their infrastructure
• Use the best Test Driven Development methodologies

Who this book is for

This book is for Software Engineers, System Administrators, or DevOps Engineers who need to quickly deliver reliably consistent infrastructure at scale. You are expected to have intermediate experience with Chef and Ruby and will be reading this book to advance your knowledge and take your skillset to the next level.