Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook

Description

Cover; Copyright; Credits; Foreword; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Chef Infrastructure; Introduction; Using version control; Installing Chef on your workstation; Using the Hosted Chef platform; Managing virtual machines with Vagrant; Creating and using cookbooks; Inspecting files on your Chef Server with Knife; Defining cookbook dependencies; Managing cookbook dependencies with Berkshelf; Downloading and integrating cookbooks as vendor branches into your Git repository; Using custom Knife plugins.;Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook contains practical recipes on everything you will need to automate your infrastructure using Chef. The book is packed with illustrated code examples to automate your server and cloud infrastructure. The book first shows you the simplest way to achieve a certain task. Then it explains every step in detail, so that you can build your knowledge about how things work. Eventually, the book shows you additional things to consider for each approach. That way, you can learn step-by-step and build profound knowledge on how to go about your configuration management.