Chef Essentials

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Chef is a configuration management tool that turns IT infrastructure into code. Chef provides tools to manage systems at scale. Learn to use the same tools that companies such as Facebook, Riot Games, and Ancestry.com use to manage and scale their infrastructure.

This book takes you on a comprehensive tour of Chef's functionality, ranging from core concepts to advanced development. You will be brought up to speed with what's new in Chef and how to set up your own Chef ...

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Overview

Chef is a configuration management tool that turns IT infrastructure into code. Chef provides tools to manage systems at scale. Learn to use the same tools that companies such as Facebook, Riot Games, and Ancestry.com use to manage and scale their infrastructure.

This book takes you on a comprehensive tour of Chef's functionality, ranging from core concepts to advanced development. You will be brought up to speed with what's new in Chef and how to set up your own Chef infrastructure for individuals, or small or large teams. Once you have the core components, get to grips with bootstrapping hosts to then develop and apply cookbooks. If you want to fully leverage Chef, this book will show you advanced recipes to handle new types of data providers and resources. By the end of this book, you will be confident in how to manage infrastructure, scale using the cloud, and extend the built-in functionality of Chef itself.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781783983049
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing
  • Publication date: 9/22/2014
  • Pages: 218
  • Product dimensions: 7.50 (w) x 9.25 (h) x 0.46 (d)

Meet the Author

John has been a consultant, system administrator, university lecturer, and software engineer over the course of the past fifteen years; currently he is working at Chef to make Chef even more awesome than it already is. He has experience developing software for organizations ranging from small start-ups and government entities to Fortune 500s. He has previously authored two other books on managing systems using Chef.

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