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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

The on-premises Chef server


In Chapter 2, Different Components of Chef's Anatomy, we discussed a variety of Chef server installations, in which, the on-premises Chef server installation is one of the most important.

As per the official blog of Chef posted on August 19, 2013 at https://www.chef.io/blog/2013/08/19/introducing-enterprise-chef/, Private Chef and Hosted Chef were combined and renamed as Enterprise Chef, which offered both as on-premise software and as a hosted service of Chef. This move was strategic to align with the Fortune 1000 businesses that represent the majority of Opscode's total sales.

In on-premises Chef, different types of services work together to provide on-premises automated solutions. On-premises Chef works like a Private Cloud; meaning, we can manage and automate our infrastructure within our firewall and have a flexibility of choice.