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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 3. Leveraging Roles, Environments, and Policies

In this chapter, the reader will learn the power of using roles and to follow the best practices to manage large-scale environments by leveraging roles, environments, organizations, and policies.

"My doctor told me I had to stop throwing intimate dinners for four unless there are three other people." – Orson Welles

Here is a list of the topics covered in this chapter:

  • Using Chef roles

  • Using Chef environments

  • Using Chef organizations

  • Understanding nested roles

  • Learning precedence hierarchy

  • Exploring policies