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Mastering Chef Provisioning

By : Waud

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Mastering Chef Provisioning

4.3 (7)

By: 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

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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1. Setting Up a Development Environment on Your Workstation

1. Setting Up a Development Environment on Your Workstation

Re-introducing Chef

Filling in the gaps in your Chef knowledge base

Exploring the Chef Development Kit

Installing Chef Development Kit

Setting up a standard Chef repo

What else do you need?

What is chef-apply?

Summary

2. Knife Tooling and Plugins

2. Knife Tooling and Plugins

Knife help

Knife subcommands

Knife to editor integration

Knife Windows plugin

Knife EC2 plugin

Creating new Knife plugins

Summary

3. Leveraging Roles, Environments, and Policies

3. Leveraging Roles, Environments, and Policies

Using Chef roles

Using Chef environments

Using Chef organizations

Learning the attribute precedence hierarchy

Exploring policies

Summary

4. Custom Resources

4. Custom Resources

Out with the old (LWRPs), in with the new (Custom Resources)

Creating an example use case

Creating and using a Custom Resource

Making a Custom Resource more reusable

Subclassing a Custom Resource

Summary

5. Provisioning in the Traditional Data Center

5. Provisioning in the Traditional Data Center

VMware provisioning

OpenStack provisioning

Network automation

Summary

6. Provisioning in the Cloud

6. Provisioning in the Cloud

Provisioning AWS EC2 instances

Provisioning Microsoft Azure instances

Provisioning in the Google Cloud platform

Looking at an honorable mention – Linode

Provisioning containers in Docker

Summary

7. Test-Driven Development

7. Test-Driven Development

Analyzing cookbooks with RuboCop

Analyzing cookbooks with Foodcritic

Unit testing with ChefSpec

Integration testing with Kitchen and ServerSpec

Summary

8. Using Chef Provisioning

8. Using Chef Provisioning

What is Chef provisioning?

How to use Chef Provisioning

Summary

Index

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

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