Chef Essentials

By John Ewart

Chef is a configuration management tool that turns IT infrastructure into code. Chef provides tools to manage systems at scale. With this book, you will learn how 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 its core features 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, you will 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 help you handle new types of data providers and resources. By the end of this book, you will be confident in how to manage your infrastructure, scale using the cloud, and extend the built-in functionality of Chef itself.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Release date: Sep 25, 2014
• ISBN: 9781783983056

John Ewart

John Ewart is a systems architect, software developer, and lecturer. He has taught courses at a variety of institutions including the University of California, California State University, and local community colleges, covering a wide range of computer science topics including Java, data structures and algorithms, operating systems fundamentals, UNIX and Linux systems administration, and web application development. In addition to working and teaching, he maintains and contributes to a number of open source projects. John currently resides in Sonora, California with his wife, Mary, and their two children.