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Chef Cookbook

Achieve powerful IT infrastructure management and automation

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited
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|Jul 2025
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Description

Master over 80 incredibly effective recipes to manage the day-to-day complications in your infrastructure

Key Features

  • Immediately apply Devops techniques and methods, then combine them with powerful Chef tools to manage and automate your infrastructure
  • Address the growing challenges of code management, cloud, and virtualization with Chef quickly
  • Explore and implement the important aspects of Chef Automate using this recipe-based guide

Book Description

Chef is a configuration management tool that lets you automate your more cumbersome IT infrastructure processes and control a large network of computers (and virtual machines) from one master server.
This book will help you solve everyday problems with your IT infrastructure with Chef. It will start with recipes that show you how to effectively manage your infrastructure and solve problems with users, applications, and automation. You will then come across a new testing framework, InSpec, to test any node in your infrastructure.
Further on, you will learn to customize plugins and write cross-platform cookbooks depending on the platform. You will also install packages from a third-party repository and learn how to manage users and applications. Toward the end, you will build high-availability services and explore what Habitat is and how you can implement it.

What you will learn

  • Test your cookbooks with Test Kitchen
  • Manage cookbook dependencies with Berkshelf
  • Use reporting to keep track of what happens during the execution of chef-client runs across all of the machines
  • Create custom Ohai and Knife plugins
  • Build a high-availability service using Heartbeat
  • Use a HAProxy to load-balance multiple web servers

Who this book is for

This book is for system engineers and administrators who have a fundamental understanding of information management systems and infrastructure. It is also for DevOps Engineers, IT professionals, and organizations who want to automate and gain greater control of their infrastructures with Chef. No experience with Chef is needed, but may help.

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: 978-1-78646-566-5
Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
Copyright owner: © 2017 Packt Publishing Limited
Publication date: 2025
Language: English
Pages: 268
Related subjects:
Computer sciences,
Computer sciences, other
BISAC subjects:
COM088000,
COM088010,
COM043000
Thema subjects:
UTE,
ULJL,
UT

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