Now, let's take a look at a couple of community knife plugins. We'll start with the Windows plugin. We use the knife Windows plugin when we are working with nodes running the Windows operating system. First, you will need to install the knife Windows plugin and then we will review how to use it to bootstrap a Windows node. Then, we will use some of the search features to see some of the Windows-specific node data.
Mastering Chef Provisioning
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Mastering Chef Provisioning
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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
Free Chapter
Setting Up a Development Environment on Your Workstation
Knife Tooling and Plugins
Leveraging Roles, Environments, and Policies
Custom Resources
Provisioning in the Traditional Data Center
Provisioning in the Cloud
Test-Driven Development
Using Chef Provisioning
Index
Customer Reviews