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Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook

By : Matthias Marschall
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Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook

By: Matthias Marschall

Overview of this book

<p>Irrespective of whether you're a systems administrator or a developer, if you're sick and tired of repetitive manual work and not knowing whether you may dare to reboot your server, it's time for you to get your infrastructure automated.</p> <p>Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook has all the required recipes to configure, deploy, and scale your servers and applications, irrespective of whether you manage 5 servers, 5,000 servers, or 500,000 servers.</p> <p>Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook is a collection of easy-to-follow, step-by-step recipes showing you how to solve real-world automation challenges. Learn techniques from the pros and make sure you get your infrastructure automation project right the first time.</p> <p>Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook takes you on a journey through the many facets of Chef. It teaches you simple techniques as well as fully fledged real-world solutions. By looking at easily digestible examples, you'll be able to grasp the main concepts of Chef, which you'll need for automating your own infrastructure. Instead of wasting time trying to get existing community cookbooks running in your environment, you'll get ready made code examples to get you started.</p> <p>After describing how to use the basic Chef tools, the book shows you how to troubleshoot your work and explains the Chef language. Then, it shows you how to manage users, applications, and your whole cloud infrastructure. The book concludes by providing you additional, indispensable tools and giving you an in-depth look into the Chef ecosystem.</p> <p>Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook will help you learn the techniques of the pros by walking you through a host of step-by-step guides to solve real-world infrastructure automation challenges.</p>
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

About the Reviewers

Robert Curth is a simple engineer working at gutefrage.net who reviewed this book through the eyes of a Chef novice.

Julian C. Dunn is a Senior Consultant with Opscode, Inc., the developer of Chef. He has 15 years of experience in software development and infrastructure operations at companies of various sizes across industries as diverse as finance, media/broadcasting, Internet security, and advertising.

Prior to joining Opscode, Julian was a Senior Operations Engineer at SecondMarket, Inc., where he managed infrastructure in Amazon EC2 using Chef. Before SecondMarket, he worked as web operations manager at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation where he managed content and streaming media delivery systems for Canada's largest website.

When not helping customers with automating all the things, he enjoys traveling, cycling, and stopping his cat from clawing the furniture.

Seth Vargo is a solutions engineer at Opscode, the maker of Chef. Seth created and currently leads the #learnchef campaign–a program designed to interactively teach Chef to new users. A graduate of the Carnegie Mellon Information Systems program, Seth has been a developer and systems administrator for more than 12 years. He is a proponent of open source, and is the author of popular open source tools such as powify, bootstrap_forms, strainer, fauxhai, and many Chef community cookbooks. When he's not at home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Seth is traveling and evangelizing Chef at conferences, meetup groups, and open training courses.