Mastering Chef Provisioning by Earl Waud

Key FeaturesThis is the first Chef book focused on provisioning infrastructure as its sole task. The book offers a clear solution to a specific pain point: learn to make your system work faster.Learning better approaches to load balancing and parallelization with this book will save you timeBy mastering the techniques in this book, you will know how to run an entire fleet of machines without breaking a sweatThis book is more helpful than the documentation ( https://docs.chef.io/provisioning.html), with a stronger guiding voice and clearer explanations and use casesBook DescriptionThis book will show you the best practices to describe your entire infrastructure as code.With the help of this book you can expand your knowledge of Chef because and implement robust and scalable automation solutions. You can automate and document every aspect of your network, from the hardware to software, middleware, and all your containers. You will become familiar with the Chefs Chef Provisioning tool. You will be able to make a perfect model system where everything is represented as code beneath your fingertips.Make the best possible use of your resources, and deliver infrastructure as code, making it as versionable, testable and repeatable as application softwareWhat you will learnUse best practices to describe your entire infrastructure as codeAutomate and document every aspect of your network, from the hardware of individual nodes to software, middleware, and all containers and cloudsCreate a perfect model systemMake the best possible use of your resources and avoid redundancyDeliver on the promise of Infrastructure as CodeScale with ease by properly provisioning their infrastructureUse the best Test Driven Development methodologiesAbout the AuthorEarl Waud is a virtualization development professional with more than 10 years of focused industry experience, creating innovative solutions for hypervisor provisioning, management, and automation. He is an expert in aligning engineering strategy with organizational vision and goals, and delivering highly scalable and user friendly virtualization environments.With more than 20 years of experience developing customer-facing and corporate IT software solutions, he has a proven track record of delivering high-caliber and on-time technology solutions that significantly impact business results.Earl lives in San Diego, California. He is blessed with a beautiful wife, Patti, and three amazing daughters, Alexis, Daniella, and Madison.Currently, Earl is a senior software engineer with Intuit Inc., a company that creates business and financial management solutions that simplify the business of life for small businesses, consumers, and accounting professionals.Earl can be found online at http://sandiegoearl.com.Table of ContentsSetting Up a Development Environment on Your WorkstationKnife Tooling and PluginsLeveraging Roles, Environments, and PoliciesCustom ResourcesProvisioning in the Traditional Data CenterProvisioning in the CloudTest-Driven DevelopmentUsing Chef Provisioning