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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


Here, we got the fundamental understanding of automation and the various ways in which automation helps the IT industry. DevOps is most popular nowadays, because it brings a highly collaborative environment in the entire software development process.

We got an overview of several traditional and advance automation tools, which have been used over the past 15 years. We got a clear idea why Chef is needed in the current scenario of IT automation process and why it is more preferable.

We saw the evolution of various IT automation tools and the comparison of some advance automation tools. We also discussed the comparison of Chef with other popular tools. We understood the salient features of Chef.

We will take a deep dive in to Chef's architecture, the different Chef components, and learn how to work with each one of these components in the next chapter.