In this chapter, we'll see some more advanced topics in action. You'll see how to make your recipes more flexible by using search and data bags, and how to make sure your cookbooks run on different operating systems. You'll gain critical knowledge to create extensible and maintainable cookbooks for your infrastructure.
Chef Cookbook - Third Edition
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Chef Cookbook - Third Edition
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Overview of this book
Chef is a configuration management tool that lets you automate your more cumbersome IT infrastructure processes and control a large network of computers (and virtual machines) from one master server.
This book will help you solve everyday problems with your IT infrastructure with Chef. It will start with recipes that show you how to effectively manage your infrastructure and solve problems with users, applications, and automation. You will then come across a new testing framework, InSpec, to test any node in your infrastructure.
Further on, you will learn to customize plugins and write cross-platform cookbooks depending on the platform. You will also install packages from a third-party repository and learn how to manage users and applications. Toward the end, you will build high-availability services and explore what Habitat is and how you can implement it.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Chef Cookbook - Third Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Free Chapter
Chef Infrastructure
Evaluating and Troubleshooting Cookbooks and Chef Runs
Chef Language and Style
Writing Better Cookbooks
Working with Files and Packages
Users and Applications
Servers and Cloud Infrastructure
Index
Customer Reviews