Learning Chef

Automate your infrastructure using code and leverage DevOps with Chef

About This Book

• Leverage the power of Chef to transform your infrastructure into code to deploy new features in minutes
• Understand the Chef architecture and its various components including the different types of server setups
• Packed with practical examples and industry best practices for real-world situations

Who This Book Is For

If you are a system administrator, Linux administrator, cloud developer, cloud administrator, or someone who just wants to learn and apply Chef automation to your existing or new infrastructure, this book is for you. Some real-time understanding of IT processes and familiarity with Linux systems, Ruby, and JSON is essential.

What You Will Learn

• Learn the basic fundamentals of automation and gain a detailed architectural understanding of each component of Chef
• Install all the components of Chef, including troubleshooting instructions
• Explore the intricacies of Cookbook writing and every component of a Cookbook
• Work with the open source Chef server and learn about its installation on a virtual machine
• Discover the Private Chef Server and its various types of installations
• Familiarize yourself with the best practices while working with Chef, and the various consumer case studies of different types of Chef deployment for their infrastructure

In Detail

Chef automation helps to transform infrastructure into simple code. This means that building, rebuilding, configuration, and scaling to meet your customer's needs is possible in just a few minutes in a real-time environment.

This book begins with the conceptual architecture of Chef, walking you through detailed descriptions of every Chef element. You will learn the procedure to set up your workstation and how to create a Cookbook in a hosted Chef environment.

Private Chef Server setup is covered in depth, with information on the necessity of on-premise Private Chef deployment, benefits, and installation and configuration procedures for the different types of Private Chef servers including standalone, tiered, and high-availability.

This book sheds light on industry best practices with practical Chef scenarios and examples.

自動化基礎設施，使用程式碼並利用Chef實現DevOps

關於本書
- 利用Chef將基礎設施轉換為程式碼，以便在幾分鐘內部署新功能
- 了解Chef的架構及其各個組件，包括不同類型的伺服器配置
- 提供實用示例和實務經驗，應對現實情況

本書適合對象
- 系統管理員、Linux管理員、雲端開發人員、雲端管理員，或者希望學習並應用Chef自動化於現有或新建基礎設施的人士
- 需要對IT流程有實時了解，並熟悉Linux系統、Ruby和JSON

你將學到什麼
- 學習自動化的基本原理，並詳細了解Chef的每個組件的架構
- 安裝Chef的所有組件，包括疑難排解指南
- 探索Cookbook撰寫的細節，以及Cookbook的每個組件
- 使用開源Chef伺服器，並學習在虛擬機上安裝它
- 了解Private Chef Server及其不同類型的安裝方式
- 熟悉在使用Chef時的最佳實踐，以及不同類型Chef部署基礎設施的消費者案例研究

詳細內容
- Chef自動化有助於將基礎設施轉換為簡單的程式碼。這意味著在實時環境中，只需幾分鐘即可構建、重建、配置和擴展以滿足客戶需求。
- 本書從Chef的概念架構開始，詳細介紹每個Chef元素。您將學習如何設置工作站，以及如何在托管的Chef環境中創建Cookbook。
- 深入介紹了Private Chef Server的設置，包括本地部署Private Chef的必要性、好處以及不同類型的Private Chef伺服器（獨立、分層和高可用性）的安裝和配置程序。
- 本書通過實際的Chef場景和示例，闡明了行業最佳實踐。