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
- Using definitions
- Creating your own Lightweight Resource Providers (LWRP)
- 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 take a look at how to use the Chef Domain Specific Language (DSL) from basic to advanced ...
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