Chef Cookbook - Third Edition

Key Features
Immediately apply Devops techniques and methods, then combine them with powerful Chef tools to manage and automate your infrastructure
Address the growing challenges of code management, cloud, and virtualization with Chef quickly
Explore and implement the important aspects of Chef Automate using this recipe-based guide
Book Description
Chef is a configuration management tool that lets you automate your more cumbersome IT infrastructure processes and control a large network of computers (and virtual machines) from one master server.

This book will help you solve everyday problems with your IT infrastructure with Chef. It will start with recipes that show you how to effectively manage your infrastructure and solve problems with users, applications, and automation. You will then come across a new testing framework, InSpec, to test any node in your infrastructure.

Further on, you will learn to customize plugins and write cross-platform cookbooks depending on the platform. You will also install packages from a third-party repository and learn how to manage users and applications. Toward the end, you will build high-availability services and explore what Habitat is and how you can implement it.

What you will learn
Test your cookbooks with Test Kitchen
Manage cookbook dependencies with Berkshelf
Use reporting to keep track of what happens during the execution of chef-client runs across all of the machines
Create custom Ohai and Knife plugins
Build a high-availability service using Heartbeat
Use a HAProxy to load-balance multiple web servers