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Chef Cookbook

You're reading from   Chef Cookbook Achieve powerful IT infrastructure management and automation

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786465351
Length 268 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Matthias Marschall Matthias Marschall
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chef Infrastructure FREE CHAPTER 2. Evaluating and Troubleshooting Cookbooks and Chef Runs 3. Chef Language and Style 4. Writing Better Cookbooks 5. Working with Files and Packages 6. Users and Applications 7. Servers and Cloud Infrastructure Index

Chapter 4. Writing Better Cookbooks

"When you know better, you do better"

Maya Angelou

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Setting environment variables
  • Passing arguments to shell commands
  • Overriding attributes
  • Using search to find nodes
  • Using data bags
  • Using search to find data bag items
  • Using encrypted data bag items
  • Accessing data bag values from external scripts
  • Getting information about the environment
  • Writing cross-platform cookbooks
  • Making recipes idempotent by using conditional execution
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