Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook Second Edition
Over 80 recipes to automate your cloud and server infrastructure with Chef and its associated toolset
Published on 7. October 2025
278 pages
978-1-78528-901-9 (ISBN)
Description
Key Features
Book DescriptionThis book is for system engineers and administrators who have a fundamental understanding of information management systems and infrastructure. It helps if you've already played around with Chef; however, this book covers all the important topics you will need to know. If you don't want to dig through a whole book before you can get started, this book is for you, as it features a set of independent recipes you can try out immediately.What you will learn
Set up your local development and testing environment for Chef
Debug your cookbooks and Chef runs by using the numerous inspection and logging facilities of Chef
Drive your cookbooks from external data or nodespecific attributes
Manage and scale your cloud infrastructure by automating your configuration management
Extend Chef to meet your advanced needs by creating custom plugins for knife and Ohai
Test your Chef cookbooks and infrastructure by writing examples
Who this book is for
Book DescriptionThis book is for system engineers and administrators who have a fundamental understanding of information management systems and infrastructure. It helps if you've already played around with Chef; however, this book covers all the important topics you will need to know. If you don't want to dig through a whole book before you can get started, this book is for you, as it features a set of independent recipes you can try out immediately.What you will learn
Set up your local development and testing environment for Chef
Debug your cookbooks and Chef runs by using the numerous inspection and logging facilities of Chef
Drive your cookbooks from external data or nodespecific attributes
Manage and scale your cloud infrastructure by automating your configuration management
Extend Chef to meet your advanced needs by creating custom plugins for knife and Ohai
Test your Chef cookbooks and infrastructure by writing examples
Who this book is for
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Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Birmingham
United Kingdom
Target group
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
File size
2,37 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78528-901-9 (9781785289019)
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Matthias Marschall
Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook - Second Edition
Book
05/2015
Packt Publishing
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Person
Marschall Matthias :
Matthias Marschall is a Software Engineer "made in Germany". His four children make sure that he feels comfortable in lively environments, and stays in control of chaotic situations. A lean and agile engineering lead, he's passionate about continuous delivery, infrastructure automation, and all things DevOps. In recent years, Matthias has helped build several web-based businesses, first with Java and then with Ruby on Rails. He quickly grew into system administration, writing his own configuration management tool before migrating his whole infrastructure to Chef in its early days. In 2008, he started a blog (http://www.agileweboperations.com) together with Dan Ackerson. There, they have shared their ideas about DevOps since the early days of the continually emerging movement. You can find him on Twitter as @mmarschall. Matthias holds a Master's degree in Computer Science (Dipl.-Inf. (FH)) and teaches courses on Agile Software Development at the University of Augsburg. When not writing or coding, Matthias enjoys drawing cartoons and playing Go. He lives near Munich, Germany.
Matthias Marschall is a Software Engineer "made in Germany". His four children make sure that he feels comfortable in lively environments, and stays in control of chaotic situations. A lean and agile engineering lead, he's passionate about continuous delivery, infrastructure automation, and all things DevOps. In recent years, Matthias has helped build several web-based businesses, first with Java and then with Ruby on Rails. He quickly grew into system administration, writing his own configuration management tool before migrating his whole infrastructure to Chef in its early days. In 2008, he started a blog (http://www.agileweboperations.com) together with Dan Ackerson. There, they have shared their ideas about DevOps since the early days of the continually emerging movement. You can find him on Twitter as @mmarschall. Matthias holds a Master's degree in Computer Science (Dipl.-Inf. (FH)) and teaches courses on Agile Software Development at the University of Augsburg. When not writing or coding, Matthias enjoys drawing cartoons and playing Go. He lives near Munich, Germany.
Content
Table of Contents
Chef Infrastructure
Evaluating and Troubleshooting Cookbooks and Chef Runs
Chef Language and Style
Writing Better Cookbooks
Working with Files and Packages
Users and Applications
Servers and Cloud Infrastructure
Chef Infrastructure
Evaluating and Troubleshooting Cookbooks and Chef Runs
Chef Language and Style
Writing Better Cookbooks
Working with Files and Packages
Users and Applications
Servers and Cloud Infrastructure
