Automation with Chef

In today’s technology-driven world, managing and maintaining infrastructure at scale has become increasingly complex. System administrators often face challenges in deploying and configuring numerous servers, ensuring consistency across environments, and efficiently managing updates and changes. Manual configuration processes are time-consuming, error-prone, and difficult to scale. To address these issues, automation has emerged as a crucial solution. Among the various automation tools available, Chef stands out as a powerful configuration management system that streamlines infrastructure provisioning and management.

The purpose of this chapter is to provide a comprehensive overview of automating infrastructure with Chef in the Linux environment. It aims to explore the various components of Chef and their roles, examine the benefits of using Chef for infrastructure automation, discuss real-world use cases, and analyze Chef’s strengths and limitations...