Build your infrastructure automation stack in minutes or hours instead of days and weeks About This Book * Successfully implement Chef in your organization without having a strong set of pre-requisites * Manage small or large number of nodes smoothly and model your infrastructure accordingly * Leverage Chef to manage your infrastructure efficiently and save cost and time Who This Book Is For This book is ideal for developers, sysadmins, and IT professionals new to configuration management and Chef. Basic familiarity with system administration and knowledge of command line tools is expected. What you will learn * Layer out the various levels of configuration abstraction * Configure a workstation for Chef * Deep-dive into the Chef workflow * Learn how to control Test Kitchen for functional testing * Write templates using Embedded Ruby * Use Chef Zero and Chef Server for your infrastructure configuration * Use Berkshelf for dependency management In Detail This is an introductory level book on implementing and deploying Chef in your organization for automation and configuration management. This book starts by showing how to setup, package, and deliver your applications. Next, you will learn how to write Chef code and verify it works. The first half of this book will cover essential components of client-side Chef with Test Kitchen, Chef Solo, and Cookbooks. The later half of the book will cover methods and tools related to Chef server, Chef Zero and how to perform configuration management. By the end of the book, you will learn how to successfully implemented Chef for IT automation and configuration management.