
Mastering Chef Provisioning
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Key Features
[*] This is the first Chef book focused on provisioning infrastructure as its sole task. The book offers a clear solution to a specific pain point: learn to make your system work faster.
[*] Learning better approaches to load balancing and parallelization with this book will save you time
[*]By mastering the techniques in this book, you will know how to run an entire fleet of machines without breaking a sweat
[*] This book is more helpful than the documentation (https://docs.chef.io/provisioning.html), with a stronger guiding voice and clearer explanations and use cases
Book DescriptionThis 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
Who this book is forThis book is for Software Engineers, System Administrators, or DevOps Engineers who need to quickly deliver reliably consistent infrastructure at scale. You are expected to have intermediate experience with Chef and Ruby and will be reading this book to advance your knowledge and take your skillset to the next level.
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Earl Waud is a virtualization development professional with more than 20 year's experience developing customer-facing, enterprise-grade software for VM, and works with container provisioning, management, and automation. Earl has a proven track record of delivering on-time solutions that significantly impact business results; solutions that align engineering strategies with organizational vision. Recently, Earl has been creating AWS-based container solutions for enterprises using Docker, Kubernetes, Artifactory, Xray, and Twistlock. Currently, Earl is a senior software engineer with Intuit Inc. Other books by Earl include Mastering Chef Provisioning and Chef: Powerful Infrastructure Automation. Earl can be found online at SanDiegoEarl (dot) com.
Content
Setting up your Development Environment
Knife Tooling and Plug-Ins
Leveraging Roles and Environments
Building LWRPs
Provisioning the Traditional Data Center
Provisioning AWS EC2 Instances
Test Driven Development
Additional Chef Tips and Techniques
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File format: PDF
Copy-Protection: Adobe-DRM (Digital Rights Management)
System requirements:
- Computer (Windows; MacOS X; Linux): Install the free reader Adobe Digital Editions prior to download (see eBook Help).
- Tablet/smartphone (Android; iOS): Install the free app Adobe Digital Editions or the app PocketBook before downloading (see eBook Help).
- E-reader: Bookeen, Kobo, Pocketbook, Sony, Tolino and many more (only limited: Kindle).
The file format PDF always displays a book page identically on any hardware. This makes PDF suitable for complex layouts such as those used in textbooks and reference books (images, tables, columns, footnotes). Unfortunately, on the small screens of e-readers or smartphones, PDFs are rather annoying, requiring too much scrolling.
This eBook uses Adobe-DRM, a „hard” copy protection. If the necessary requirements are not met, unfortunately you will not be able to open the eBook. You will therefore need to prepare your reading hardware before downloading.
Please note: We strongly recommend that you authorise using your personal Adobe ID after installation of any reading software.
For more information, see our eBook Help page.