Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook - Second Edition

Matthias Marschall

• Verlag: Packt Publishing
• Jahr: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781785289019
• Thema: Informatique
• Thema: Réseaux informatiques

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.

Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook Second Edition

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Table of Contents

Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook Second Edition

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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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...