Automation through Chef Opscode: A Hands-on Approach to Chef

Book Description

Automation through Chef Opscode provides an in-depth understanding of Chef, which is written in Ruby and Erlang for configuration management, cloud infrastructure management, system administration, and network management.

Targeted at administrators, consultants, and architect, the book guides them through the advanced features of the tool which are necessary for infrastructure automation, devops automation, and reporting. The book presumes knowledge of Ruby and Erlang which are used as reference languages for creating recipes and cookbooks and as a refresher on them to help the reader get on speed with the flow of book.

The book provides step by step instructions on installation and configuration of Chef, usage scenarios of Chef,  in infrastructure automation by providing common scenarios like virtual machine provisioning, OS configuration for Windows, Linux, and Unix,  provisioning and configuration of web servers like Apache along with popular databases like MySQL.

It further elaborates on the creation of recipes, and cookbooks, which help in deployment of servers and applications to any physical, virtual, or cloud location, no matter the size of the infrastructure.

The books covers advanced featureslike LWRPs and Knife and also contains several illustrative sample cookbooks on MySQL, Apache, and CouchDB deployment using a step by step approach.

What you’ll learn

• Features and resources that power Chef as an optimum automation tool
• Installing and configuring Chef
• Managing your infrastructure using Chef
• How to develop cookbooks and recipes
• Real-time automation to deploy servers and applications to any physical, virtual, or cloud location

Who this book is for

• IT administrators
• OS administrators
• Linux administrators
• Consultants
• Cloud architects
• Cloud computing consultants
• Infrastructure architects
• Automation consultants
• Automation architects

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 The Chef Server
Chapter 3 Installing and configuring the Chef Server
Chapter 4 Installing and configuring a Workstation
Chapter 5 Nodes
Chapter 6 Knife
Chapter 7 Cookbooks
Chapter 8 Using Cookbooks
Chapter 9 Develop a Complex Cookbook
Chapter 10 Resource and Providers
Chapter 11 HA
Chapter 12 Cloud Provisioning with Vagrant and Chef
Chapter 13 Troubleshooting

中文：

书名：通过Chef Opscode实现自动化：亲身体验厨师

通过厨师操作码实现自动化 提供对Chef的深入了解，这是在 红宝石 和 Erlang 用于配置管理、云基础设施管理、系统管理和网络管理。

面向管理员、顾问和架构师，该书指导他们了解该工具的高级功能，这些功能是基础设施自动化、DevOPS自动化和报告所必需的。这本书假定读者具有红宝石和Erlang的知识，这两种语言被用作创建食谱和食谱的参考语言，并作为对它们的复习，以帮助读者快速了解书籍的流程。

本书提供了安装和配置Chef的分步说明，Chef的使用场景，以及通过提供常见场景(如虚拟机配置、操作系统配置)实现基础架构自动化 Windows, Linux, 和 Unix、提供和配置Web服务器，如 Apache 以及流行的数据库，如 MySQL.

它进一步详细介绍了配方和食谱的创建，它们有助于将服务器和应用程序部署到任何物理、虚拟或云位置，无论基础设施的规模如何。

这些书涵盖了高级功能，如 低含水率核电厂 和 小刀 还包含几本关于使用分步方法部署MySQL、Apache和CouchDB的说明性示例食谱。

What you’ll learn

• 使Chef成为最佳自动化工具的功能和资源
• Installing 和 configuring Chef
• Managing your infrastructure using Chef
• 如何开发食谱和食谱
• 实时自动化，可将服务器和应用程序部署到任何物理、虚拟或云位置

这本书是为谁而写的

• IT administrators
• OS administrators
• Linux管理员
• Consultants
• Cloud architects
• 云计算顾问
• Infrastructure architects
• 自动化顾问
• 自动化架构师

Table of Contents

第一章绪论
第2章厨师服务生
第3章安装和配置Chef服务器
第4章安装和配置工作站
Chapter 5 Nodes
Chapter 6 小刀
Chapter 7 Cookbooks
第八章使用食谱
第9章开发一本复杂的食谱
第十章资源和提供者
Chapter 11 HA
第12章使用流浪者和厨师进行云资源调配
第13章故障排除