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Learning Chef

By : Rishabh Sharma, Mitesh Soni
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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


In this chapter, we learned about the benefits of the on-premises Chef server, different types of on-premises Chef servers, all the prerequisites and initial settings for every type of on-premises Chef installation, and their step-by-step installation procedures. We also learned various service commands and subcommands used to manage on-premises Chef services. Now, we can easily install and manage on-premises Chef in our organization or laboratory according to our usage. In the next chapter, we will learn the Chef installation of virtual machines and Chef installation on cloud instances.