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PartÂ I.Â Chef and Ruby 101

The first part of the book focuses on the essential background material you need to begin customizing Chef. We look at:

An introduction to configuration management, Chef, and the current state of the customization landscape
How to level up your Ruby knowledge with object-oriented programming techniques
The internals of Chefâs server and client components and how a Chef run functions under the hood

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