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Mastering Chef Provisioning

By : Earl Waud
Book Image

Mastering Chef Provisioning

By: Earl Waud

Overview of this book

This book will show you the best practices to describe your entire infrastructure as code. With the help of this book you can expand your knowledge of Chef because and implement robust and scalable automation solutions. You can automate and document every aspect of your network, from the hardware to software, middleware, and all your containers. You will become familiar with the Chef’s Chef Provisioning tool. You will be able to make a perfect model system where everything is represented as code beneath your fingertips. Make the best possible use of your resources, and deliver infrastructure as code, making it as versionable, testable and repeatable as application software
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Mastering Chef Provisioning
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 2. Knife Tooling and Plugins

In this chapter, we're going to cover the primary command-line tool in the Chef repertoire. Basic Knife functionality is detailed, as well as the use of community plugins and instructions on how to create your own new plugins.

"Knife skills are the gateway drug to good cooking" – Chef Todd Mohr, Certified Culinary Educator (CCE)

In this chapter, the reader will learn to wield Knife and extend its capabilities as needed. Here is the list of topics that will be covered in this chapter:

  • Knife help

  • Knife subcommands

  • Knife to editor integration

  • Knife Windows plugin

  • Knife EC2 plugin

  • Creating new Knife plugins