Chapter 3. Chef Language and Style
"Style is what separates the good from the great."
Bozhidar Batsov
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- 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
- Creating your own custom resource
- Extending community cookbooks by using application wrapper cookbooks
- Creating custom Ohai plugins
- Creating custom knife plugins
Introduction
If you want to automate your infrastructure, you will end up using most of Chef's language features. In this chapter, we will look at how to use the Chef Domain Specific Language (DSL) from the basic to advanced level. We will end the chapter with ...
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