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Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook Second Edition

By:Matthias Marschall
Publisher:Packt Publishing
Print ISBN:9781785287947
eText ISBN:9781785289019
Edition:1
Copyright:2015
Format:Reflowable

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Book Description

This book is for system engineers and administrators who have a fundamental understanding of information management systems and infrastructure. It helps if you've already played around with Chef; however, this book covers all the important topics you will need to know. If you don't want to dig through a whole book before you can get started, this book is for you, as it features a set of independent recipes you can try out immediately.

What you will learn

  • Set up your local development and testing environment for Chef
  • Debug your cookbooks and Chef runs by using the numerous inspection and logging facilities of Chef
  • Drive your cookbooks from external data or nodespecific attributes
  • Manage and scale your cloud infrastructure by automating your configuration management
  • Extend Chef to meet your advanced needs by creating custom plugins for knife and Ohai
  • Test your Chef cookbooks and infrastructure by writing examples

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