Mastering Chef Provisioning

Book Description:

This book will show you the best practices to describe your entire infrastructure as code.

With the help of this book you can expand your knowledge of Chef because and implement robust and scalable automation solutions. You can automate and document every aspect of your network, from the hardware to software, middleware, and all your containers. You will become familiar with the Chef’s Chef Provisioning tool. You will be able to make a perfect model system where everything is represented as code beneath your fingertips.

Make the best possible use of your resources, and deliver infrastructure as code, making it as versionable, testable and repeatable as application software

What you will learn

• Use best practices to describe your entire infrastructure as code
• Automate and document every aspect of your network, from the hardware of individual nodes to software, middleware, and all containers and clouds
• Create a perfect model system
• Make the best possible use of your resources and avoid redundancy
• Deliver on the promise of Infrastructure as Code
• Scale with ease by properly provisioning their infrastructure
• Use the best Test Driven Development methodologies