Learning Chef
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Taylor, Mischa (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
This book is a great hands-on introduction to Chef. You will learn Chef automation for packaging and delivery of applications in your infrastructure. This Chef book will help you build your infrastructure’s application stack in hours. You will write Chef code in Ruby. This will teach you different Chef tools and configuration management concepts with detailed examples.
This book will teach you to:
- Configure your Chef development environment and start writing recipes
- Create Chef cookbooks with recipes for each part of your infrastructure
- Use Test Kitchen to manage sandbox testing environments
- Manage single nodes with Chef client, and multiple nodes
- Use data bags for storing shared global data between nodes
- Simulate production Chef Server environments with Chef Zero
- Classify different types of services in your infrastructure with roles
- Model life stages of your application, including development, testing, staging, and production
The best Chef book in 2024.
Customizing Chef
- Cowie, Jon (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 385 Pages - 10/14/2014 (Publication Date) - O'Reilly Media (Publisher)
This book assumes you have intermediate-to-advanced Chef experience. You will tackle specific automation issues that you cannot quickly solve out of the box. This practical Chef guide will help you understand the internal structure of Chef. Use Chef code snippets, practical advice and determine case by case if you should go for customization.
You will:
- Use Chef setups and why you may need to customize them
- Ruby concepts needed to write Chef customizations
- Customize the Chef run process and internal classes
- Better understand your Chef runs through handlers and Chef’s event stream
- Level up your Chef recipes by writing your own resources and providers
- Create and extend plugins for Knife—Chef’s command-line tool
- Learn Chef API to write scripts and reports
- How to contribute customizations to the Chef community
This is one of the best Chef books in 2024.