Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook - Second Edition
eBook - ePub

Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook - Second Edition

  1. 278 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook - Second Edition

About this book

About This Book

  • Automate error-prone and tedious manual tasks and manage your servers on-site or in the cloud
  • Equip yourself with Chef components such as Chef client and solo, and learn how to create simple Chef cookbooks and various other artifacts for managing systems with Chef when live
  • Packed with working code and easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions to configure, deploy, and scale your applications

Who This Book Is For

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.

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Information

Publisher
Packt Publishing
Year
2015
Topic
Computer Science
eBook ISBN
9781785289019
Subtopic
Client-Server Computing
Index
Computer Science

Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook Second Edition

Table of Contents

Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more
Why subscribe?
Free access for Packt account holders
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Sections
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
See also
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Chef Infrastructure
Introduction
Using version control
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
See also
Installing the Chef development kit on your workstation
How to do it...
How it works...
See also
Using the hosted Chef platform
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
See also
Managing virtual machines with Vagrant
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
See also
Creating and using cookbooks
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
See also
Inspecting files on your Chef server with knife
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
See also
Defining cookbook dependencies
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
See also
Managing cookbook dependencies with Berkshelf
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
See also
Downloading and integrating cookbooks as vendor branches into your Git repository
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
See also
Using custom knife plugins
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
See also
Deleting a node from the Chef server
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
See also
Developing recipes with local mode
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Running knife in local mode
Moving to hosted Chef or your own Chef server
See also
Using roles
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
See also
Using environments
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
See also
Freezing cookbooks
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
See also
Running Chef client as a daemon
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Using chef-shell
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
See also
2. Evaluating and Troubleshooting Cookbooks and Chef Runs
Introduction
Testing your Chef cookbooks
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
See also
Flagging problems in your Chef cookbooks
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
See also
Test-driven development for cookbooks using ChefSpec
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
See also
Integration testing your Chef cookbooks with Test Kitchen
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
See also
Showing affected nodes before uploading cookbooks
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
See also
Overriding a node's run list to execute a single recipe
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
See also
Using why-run mode to find out what a recipe might do
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
See also
Debugging Chef client runs
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
See also
Inspecting the results of your last Chef run
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
See also
Raising and logging exceptions in recipes
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
See also
Diff-ing cookbooks with knife
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
See also
Using community exception and report handlers
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
See also
Creating custom handlers
Getting ready...
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
See also
3. Chef Language and Style
Introduction
Using community Chef style
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
See also
Using attributes to dynamically configure recipes
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Calculating values in the attribute files
See also
Using templates
Gett...

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