Introduction

Automation through Opscode Chef 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 architects, the book guides them through the advanced features of the tool that 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 to help the reader get on speed with the flow of book.

The book provides step-by-step instructions on the installation and configuration of chef, usage scenarios of chef, in ...

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