Book Image

Learning Chef

By : Rishabh Sharma, Mitesh Soni
Book Image

Learning Chef

By: Rishabh Sharma, Mitesh Soni

Overview of this book

<p>Chef automation helps to transform infrastructure into simple code. This means that building, rebuilding, configuration, and scaling to meet your customer's needs is possible in just a few minutes in a real-time environment.</p> <p>This book begins with the conceptual architecture of Chef, walking you through detailed descriptions of every Chef element. You will learn the procedure to set up your workstation and how to create a Cookbook in a hosted Chef environment.</p> <p>Private Chef Server setup is covered in depth, with information on the necessity of on-premise Private Chef deployment, benefits, and installation and configuration procedures for the different types of Private Chef servers including standalone, tiered, and high-availability.</p> <p>This book sheds light on industry best practices with practical Chef scenarios and examples.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Learning Chef
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


We learned the step-by-step installation process of an open source Chef server and its installation on a virtual machine. We also learned about VMware's initial settings and the configuration to install an open source Chef server. An infrastructure automation administrator can learn to upgrade an open source Chef server from a lower version to the latest version.

In the next chapter, we are going to learn about the Private Chef-server, its benefits, various types of Private Chef installations, and their prerequisites.