Mastering Chef

Build, deploy, and manage your IT infrastructure to deliver a successful automated system with Chef in any environment

About This Book

• Discover the new fundamentals of the ecosystem, its APIs, as well as the ohai and knife plugins
• Learn new ways of using Chef and its attributes by overriding the old attributes
• Packed with real-world examples that can be used to explore the components like speeding up Chef with Ruby

Who This Book Is For

If you have used Chef before and are interested in automation of infrastructure and want to develop your own tools to manage large-scale infrastructures, then this book is for you.

What You Will Learn

• Get familiar with the Chef ecosystem and its associated components
• Use Ruby and Chef together to write effective infrastructure code
• Explore various aspects of the Chef API, such as using search in a recipe and with the help of the Knife plugin
• Write recipes and custom Lightweight Resource/Provider
• Discover the usage of data bags and templates to customize servers
• Extend the functionalities of Chef using custom Ohai and Knife plugins

In Detail

Chef is a configuration management tool that turns IT infrastructure into code. Chef provides tools to manage systems at scale. This book will take you through the Chef code, tools, and components to manage your environments using the Chef server efficiently. The book starts with an introduction to the Chef ecosystem, taking you through the terminologies used in Chef, the anatomy of a chef-client run, and Chef solo. You will learn how to use Knife and its associated plugins to accomplish daily routine tasks in a more efficient way. You will also learn how to speed this up by using Ruby with Chef, which will allow you to write more efficient infrastructure code. This book then introduces you to cookbooks and how to extend chef-client through the use of Lightweight Resource/Provider. It tells you how to keep all kind of configurations in key-value pair efficiently, by introducing you to data bags and templates. Then you will get a walkthrough of Chef's wonderful APIs and the extended functionalities of Chef. By the end of the book you will be so well-versed with Chef that you'll be able to explore some fun uses of Chef, which will allow for better productivity.

建立、部署和管理您的IT基礎架構，以在任何環境中使用Chef提供成功的自動化系統。

關於本書：
- 探索生態系統的新基礎知識，以及ohai和knife插件
- 通過覆蓋舊屬性來學習使用Chef和其屬性的新方法
- 包含可用於探索組件的實際示例，例如使用Ruby加速Chef

本書適合對Chef有經驗並對基礎架構自動化和開發自己的工具來管理大型基礎架構感興趣的讀者。

您將學到什麼：
- 熟悉Chef生態系統及其相關組件
- 使用Ruby和Chef一起編寫有效的基礎架構代碼
- 探索Chef API的各個方面，例如在配方中使用搜索以及使用Knife插件的幫助
- 編寫配方和自定義輕量級資源/提供者
- 發現使用數據包和模板自定義服務器的用法
- 使用自定義Ohai和Knife插件擴展Chef的功能

Chef是一個將IT基礎架構轉化為代碼的配置管理工具。Chef提供了管理大型系統的工具。本書將帶您深入了解Chef代碼、工具和組件，以有效地使用Chef服務器管理您的環境。本書從介紹Chef生態系統開始，帶您了解Chef中使用的術語、chef-client運行的結構以及Chef solo。您將學習如何使用Knife及其相關插件以更高效的方式完成日常例行任務。您還將學習如何通過使用Ruby與Chef加速這一過程，從而寫出更高效的基礎架構代碼。本書還介紹了cookbook和如何通過使用輕量級資源/提供者來擴展chef-client。它向您介紹了如何以高效的方式將各種配置保存在鍵值對中，並介紹了數據包和模板。然後，您將深入了解Chef的出色API和Chef的擴展功能。通過閱讀本書，您將對Chef非常熟悉，並能夠探索Chef的一些有趣用途，從而提高生產力。