In this chapter, we'll see how to manage the user accounts on your nodes with Chef. This is one of the fundamental things you can start your infrastructure automation efforts with.
After dealing with users, we'll take a look at how to install and manage more advanced applications. Our examples mainly cover a web application stack using nginx as a web server, MySQL as a database, and WordPress or Ruby on Rails for the web application.
We'll close the chapter with showing you how to manage your local workstation with Chef.