Chef Cookbook

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

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.