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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

Chapter 5. Starting the Journey to the World of Recipes

We have our Chef server setup done by now. You must be itching to get your hands dirty with writing Chef code and bootstrapping your infrastructure using it. We'll look into the different components that can be managed through Chef using the concept of resources. Once we are familiar with different resources, we'll see how we can utilize them in our recipes. We'll also see some best practices in writing recipes.

Before we start off, we need to understand what the term "recipe" really means.

In the world of Chef, a recipe is the most fundamental unit of code that is executed. It can be considered as the most fundamental configuration element within an organization. A recipe is a piece of code written in Ruby and it defines everything that is required to configure a system or part of it. A system can comprise of different components. For example, you may have a machine that is acting as a database and...

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