Chapter 1. Setting Up a Development Environment on Your Workstation

In today's fast-paced IT world, it is a requirement to deliver infrastructure at warp speed. There's really only one way to achieve this requirement, and that is through automation.

One of the best paths to infrastructure automation is via Chef. Using Chef, you can turn your infrastructure into code. With infrastructure as code, you can automate the way you build, deploy, and manage all of it. Using Chef, your infrastructure becomes very consistent, very duplicable, and version-controlled. Using Chef, you can easily test your infrastructure setup and configuration. With Chef, you can become an IT superhero!

In this chapter, we're going to detail the setup and configuration of a ...

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