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.