Chef

Introduction to CHEF

Common Chef Terminology

Chef Server

Chef Workstation

Chef Workstation – Looking At Security And Configurations

Chef-Repo

Chef-Client

Servers And Nodes

Chef Configuration Concepts

BUILDING THE WEB SERVER COOKBOOK

Getting Set Up

Starting The Apache Recipe

Adding Attributes, Recipe, And A Template

Attribute Precedence

Adding HTML Templates Dynamically With Chef

Recipe Includes And Dependencies

Copying Config Files To The Node

Executing Linux Commands On The Node

Adding Platform Support To The Cookbook

Adding The Local Chef-Repo To Github

NODE OBJECT AND SEARCH

What Is The Node Object?

Search Concepts

Searching Node Attributes Using Knife

CHEF ENVIRONMENTS

What Are Environments And Why Do They Matter?

Creating And Configuring Environments

Creating A Second Version Of Our WebServer Cookbook

Deploying To Different Environments

Viewing And Deleting Environments With Knife

DATA-BAGS

What Are Data Bags?

Creating User And Sudo Group Data Bags

Building A Recipe To Deploy Local User Accounts From Data Bags

ROLES

What Are Roles?

Creating A Web Server Role

Building A Simple MySQL Cookbook For A Role

Creating A DB Server Role

Creating A Base Role

EXTENDING CHEF

Knife Plugins

Chef Supermarket and Chef-Client Cookbook

USING OPENSOURCE CHEF SERVER

Open Source Chef

Configuring the Workstation and Bootstrapping a Node

Closing: Bootstrapping Nodes and Deploying Cookbooks

DEPLOYING NODES IN PRODUCTION

Open Source Chef

Configuring the Workstation and Bootstrapping a Node

Closing: Bootstrapping Nodes and Deploying Cookbooks