Get a hands on introduction to the Chef the configuration management tool for solving operations issues in enterprises large and small. Ideal for developers and sysadmins new to configuration management this guide shows you to automate the packaging and delivery of applications in your infrastructure. Youll be able to build or rebuild your infrastructures application stack in minutes or hours rather than days or weeks.After teaching you how to write Ruby-based Chef code this book walks you through different Chef tools and configuration management concepts in each chapter using detailed examples throughout. All you need to get started is command-line experience and familiarity with basic system administration.Configure your Chef development environment and start writing recipesCreate Chef cookbooks with recipes for each part of your infrastructureUse Test Kitchen to manage sandbox testing environmentsManage single nodes with Chef client and multiple nodes with Chef ServerUse data bags for storing shared global data between nodesSimulate production Chef Server environments with Chef ZeroClassify different types of services in your infrastructure with rolesModel life stages of your application including development testing staging and production About the AuthorMischa Taylor is a consultant at Chef a fast-growing Seattle-based startup responsible for creating the Chef platform which makes it easy to quickly automate development processes and move business processes into the cloud. He has spent his career focusing on building high quality products and increasing engineering productivity within organizations. Mischa is an author speaker and mentor on software development topics and neuromorphic computing. Seth Vargo is currently a software engineer and open source advocate at at HashiCorp. Previously Seth worked at Chef Opscode CustomInk and a few Pittsburgh-based startups. He is pas
Mischa Taylor is a consultant at Chef, a fast-growing Seattle-based startup responsible for creating the Chef platform, which makes it easy to quickly automate development processes and move business processes into the cloud. He has spent his career focusing on building high quality products and increasing engineering productivity within organizations. Mischa is an author, speaker and mentor on software development topics and neuromorphic computing.
Seth is currently a software engineer and open source advocate at at HashiCorp. Previously, Seth worked at Chef (Opscode), CustomInk, and a few Pittsburgh-based startups. He is passionate about inequality in technology and organizational culture. When he is not writing software or working on open source, Seth enjoys speaking at local user groups and conferences. He is a co-organizer for DevOps Days Pittsburgh and loves all things bacon. You can find him on the Internet as @sethvargo or at https://sethvargo.com.
