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Mastering Chef

By : Mayank Joshi
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Mastering Chef

By: Mayank Joshi

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Mastering Chef
Mayank Joshi
Jun, 2015 | 374 pages
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Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Mastering Chef
Mastering Chef
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction to the Chef Ecosystem
Introduction to the Chef Ecosystem
Different modes of running Chef
Terminology used in the world of Chef
The anatomy of a Chef run
Setting up a work environment
Summary
2
Knife and Its Associated Plugins
Knife and Its Associated Plugins
Introducing Knife
Summary
3
Chef and Ruby
Chef and Ruby
Ruby
IRB
Variables and types
Symbols
Basic operations
Conditional statements and loops
Methods
Arrays
Bang methods
Hashes
Classes and objects
Summary
4
Controlling Access to Resources
Controlling Access to Resources
The bootstrap process
Authentication
Authorization
Summary
5
Starting the Journey to the World of Recipes
Starting the Journey to the World of Recipes
Resources
Recipes
Best practices when writing recipes
Summary
6
Cookbooks and LWRPs
Cookbooks and LWRPs
Cookbooks
Custom resources
Summary
7
Roles and Environments
Roles and Environments
Managing roles
Managing environments
Setting up an environment on a node
Role and environment attributes
Environment run lists
Summary
8
Attributes and Their Uses
Attributes and Their Uses
Attribute naming
Different types of attributes
Different sources of attributes
Attribute precedence
Attribute whitelisting
Summary
9
Ohai and Its Plugin Ecosystem
Ohai and Its Plugin Ecosystem
Running the Ohai binary
Ohai plugins
Custom plugins
Summary
10
Data Bags and Templates
Data Bags and Templates
Data bags
Templates
Summary
11
Chef API and Search
Chef API and Search
Prerequisites for using Chef API
Authentication of requests
Endpoints
Search
Ridley
Summary
12
Extending Chef
Extending Chef
Custom Knife plugins
Custom Chef handlers
Summary
13
(Ab)Using Chef
(Ab)Using Chef
The dynamic server list in Capistrano using Chef
Capistrano style deployments using Chef's "deploy" resource
Extending Chef to bootstrap distributed systems
Test-driven development with Chef
Types of tests
Summary
Index
Index

About the Author

Mayank Joshi works for Indix as a DevOps engineer. He has worn many hats during his 10-year long career. He has been a developer, a systems analyst, a systems administrator, a software consultant, and for the past 6 years, he has been fascinated with the phenomenal growth witnessed in cloud environments and the challenges of automation associated with the hosting of the infrastructure in such environments. Prior to Indix, he worked for start-ups such as SlideShare, R&D organizations such as CDAC, and even had a stint at a highly automated chemical plant of IFFCO.

I would like to thank all my fellow colleagues at Indix for their wonderful support and allowing me to get some spare time amid some very tight work schedules.

I wouldn't have been able to work on cloud platforms and configuration management systems had I not associated with SlideShare. Thanks much, guys!

I would also like to thank my family for bearing with me while I was spending most of the time either working or writing the book.

Last but not least, special thanks to the wonderful team at Packt, especially Parita and Meeta, who really pushed me whenever I was losing focus.

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