In this chapter, we have discussed Chef, chef-client, and Chef-Solo. We also discussed some core concepts of Chef and had a look at different use cases. Also, we elaborated upon certain Chef terminologies such as nodes, workstations, cookbooks, recipes, resources, roles, attributes, templates, and data bags.

In the next chapter, we will discuss the cookbooks in more detail and set up a Linux machine with Chef, and will execute some open source recipes.