Learn how to customize Chef by examining the internal structure this configuration management tool and navigating its source code. This practical book also shows you how to integrate external tooling with Chef via the API, and takes a look at more advanced customization. Num Pages: 388 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: UM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 179 x 20. Weight in Grams: 662. . 2014. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Customizing Chef
Publisher: O Reilly Media
Publication Date: 2014
Language: English
ISBN 10: 149194935X
ISBN 13: 9781491949351
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New

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Take advantage of Chef’s highly customizable design to tackle specific automation issues that you can’t solve by simply using Chef’s tools, resources, and services out of the box. With this practical guide, you’ll examine the internal structure of this configuration management technology and learn where, how, and why to add custom code.

Author Jon Cowie not only provides code snippets and practical advice for customizing Chef, but also helps you determine case by case whether it’s in your best interests to customize at all. If you have intermediate-to-advanced Chef experience, this book is indispensable.

Explore Chef’s typical setups and why you’d want to customize them
Learn the Ruby concepts needed to write customizations
Customize the Chef run process and explore Chef’s internal classes
Gain more insight into your Chef runs through handlers and Chef’s event stream
Level up your Chef recipes by writing your own resources and providers
Create and extend plugins for Knife—Chef’s command-line tool
Interact with the Chef API to write scripts and reports
Learn how to contribute customizations to the Chef community

About the Author

Jon Cowie is a senior operations engineer at Etsy where he mixes his love of both coding and operations to try and solve interesting problems. He has created and open sourced a number of projects, including the Chef tools knife-spork and knife-preflight, and has spoken at several of O'Reilly's Velocity conferences.

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