Customizing Chef

Index

Symbols

/_status endpoint, The /_status Endpoint–The /_status Endpoint

A

access control, role-based, Private Enterprise Chef

accessor methods, Getter and Setter Methods

API (see Chef API)

API clients, Chef Client Tools

architecture

Chef client tools, Chef Client Tools–Chef Client Tools

Chef server, Chef Server–Chef Server

overview, Chef Architecture–Chef Architecture

attribute persistence, chef-solo

attribute precedence, Ohai Attribute Collection

attribute validation options, Resource DSL–Resource DSL

attributes, Cookbooks, Attributes, Roles, Environments, and Data Bags, Ruby Is Object-Oriented, Load Cookbook Data

authenticate, Authenticate/Register

authentication, chef-solo

authentication headers, Authenticating to the Chef API–Authenticating to the Chef API

automatic provider resolution, Overriding Automatic Provider Resolution–Overriding Automatic Provider Resolution

B

Berkshelf, Workflow Tooling

Bookshelf, Chef Server

build_node method, The Chef::Client Class do_run Method

built-in classes, Built-in Classes

C

centralized API, chef-solo

centralized cookbooks, chef-solo

CFEngine, What Is Configuration Management?

Chef

advantages of, So Why Chef?–So Why Chef?

assumptions of this book, Assumptions

attribute precedence, Ohai Attribute Collection

installation types and limitations, Chef Installation Types and Limitations–Hosted Enterprise Chef

origins of, So Why Chef?

prerequisites, Prerequisites–Ruby

running Ohai plugins using, Running Using Chef

source code, getting, Using the Source

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