Mastering Chef Provisioning

Summary

In this chapter, we focused on provisioning in the traditional data center. With the widespread use of VMware vSphere, it is appropriate that we started with using the knife-vsphere plugin to deploy VMs into our vSphere environment. You learned how to provision and manage vSphere VM's configuration with Chef using this plugin. We also covered setting up a personal development environment using VMware's desktop hypervisors and Vagrant. We also provided references for you to do your own homework on several other VMware-related knife plugins, and with the information you have learned so far, you should be able to figure out how to make them work in your environment. Next, we took a look at provisioning into OpenStack environments. With the ...