Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook: Over 80 delicious recipes to automate your cloud and server infrastructure with Chef

Cover
 Copyright
 Credits
 Foreword
 About the Author
 About the Reviewers
 www.PacktPub.com
 Table of Contents
 Preface
 Chapter 1: Chef Infrastructure
 Introduction
 Using version control
 Installing Chef on your workstation
 Using the Hosted Chef platform
 Managing virtual machines with Vagrant
 Creating and using cookbooks
 Inspecting files on your Chef Server with Knife
 Defining cookbook dependencies
 Managing cookbook dependencies with Berkshelf
 Downloading and integrating cookbooks as vendor branches into your Git repository
 Using custom Knife plugins. Changing organizations based on the current Git branchDeleting a node from the Chef Server
 Running Chef Solo
 Using roles
 Using environments
 Freezing cookbooks
 Running Chef Client as a daemon
 Using the Chef console (Chef Shell)
 Chapter 2: Evaluating and Troubleshooting Cookbooks and Chef Runs
 Introduction
 Testing your Chef cookbooks
 Flagging problems in your Chef cookbooks
 Test Driven Development for cookbooks using ChefSpec
 Integration testing your cookbooks with Test Kitchen
 Showing affected nodes before uploading cookbooks. Overriding a node\'s run list to execute a single recipeUsing why-run mode to find out what a recipe might do
 Debugging Chef Client runs
 Inspecting results of your last ChefClient run
 Raising and logging exceptions in recipes
 Diffing cookbooks with knife
 Using community exception and report handlers
 Creating custom handlers
 Chapter 3: Chef Language and Style
 Introduction
 Using community Chef style
 Using attributes to dynamically configure recipes
 Using templates
 Mixing plain Ruby with Chef DSL
 Installing Ruby gems and using them in recipes
 Using libraries
 Using definitions. Creating your own Light Weight Resource Providers (LWRP)Extending community cookbooks by using application wrapper cookbooks
 Creating custom Ohai plugins
 Creating custom Knife plugins
 Chapter 4: Writing Better Cookbooks
 Introduction
 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. Finding the complete list of operating systems you can use in cookbooksMaking recipes idempotent by using conditional execution
 Chapter 5: Working with Files and Packages
 Introduction
 Creating configuration files using templates
 Using pure Ruby in templates for conditionals and iterations
 Installing packages from a third-party repository
 Installing software from source
 Running a command when a file is updated
 Distributing directory trees
 Cleaning up old files
 Distributing different files based on the target platform
 Chapter 6: Users and Applications
 Introduction.