Authorization

As we discussed earlier, users of Chef can only perform actions that they are authorized to perform. There is a difference in the implementation of authorization between the Enterprise and Open Source Chef server.

The Enterprise Chef server makes use of the role-based access control model.

The Open Source Chef server, on other hand, has a fairly simple model, where there are either admin users who have the privilege to read, write, update, and delete resources, or non-admin users who have read-only access to resources on the Chef server.

Let's look at each of these in detail.

The Open Source Chef server

As we discussed earlier, the Open Source Chef server has a very simple model for authorization purpose. We've two sets of users: admin and non-admin. Any user with an admin privilege can read, write, update, or delete any resources on the Chef server, whereas non-admin users have read-only access to the resources on the Chef server.

When a node is registered with the Chef...

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Mastering Chef

By : Mayank Joshi

Mastering Chef

By: Mayank Joshi

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Authorization

The Open Source Chef server

Mastering Chef

By : Mayank Joshi

Mastering Chef

By: Mayank Joshi

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