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Mastering Chef

You're reading from   Mastering Chef Build, deploy, and manage your IT infrastructure to deliver a successful automated system with Chef in any environment

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783981564
Length 374 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mayank Joshi Mayank Joshi
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to the Chef Ecosystem FREE CHAPTER 2. Knife and Its Associated Plugins 3. Chef and Ruby 4. Controlling Access to Resources 5. Starting the Journey to the World of Recipes 6. Cookbooks and LWRPs 7. Roles and Environments 8. Attributes and Their Uses 9. Ohai and Its Plugin Ecosystem 10. Data Bags and Templates 11. Chef API and Search 12. Extending Chef 13. (Ab)Using Chef Index

Authorization

As we discussed earlier, users of Chef can only perform actions that they are authorized to perform. There is a difference in the implementation of authorization between the Enterprise and Open Source Chef server.

The Enterprise Chef server makes use of the role-based access control model.

The Open Source Chef server, on other hand, has a fairly simple model, where there are either admin users who have the privilege to read, write, update, and delete resources, or non-admin users who have read-only access to resources on the Chef server.

Let's look at each of these in detail.

The Open Source Chef server

As we discussed earlier, the Open Source Chef server has a very simple model for authorization purpose. We've two sets of users: admin and non-admin. Any user with an admin privilege can read, write, update, or delete any resources on the Chef server, whereas non-admin users have read-only access to the resources on the Chef server.

When a node is registered with the Chef...

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