Jon Cowie

Customizing Chef

Getting the Most Out of Your Infrastructure Automation

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Take advantage of Chef’s highly customizable design to tackle specific automation issues that you can’t solve by simply using Chef’s tools, resources, and services out of the box. With this practical guide, you’ll examine the internal structure of this configuration management technology and learn where, how, and why to add custom code.

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Learn how to customize Chef by examining the internal structure of this configuration management tool and navigating its source code. This practical book will examine the different ways in which this flexible configuration management tool can be extended as well as examining how to integrate external tooling with Chef via the API and create more advanced customizations. By the time you finish this book, you'll have a thorough understanding of how Chef fits together and be able to position your customization in the most appropriate place. And you'll have the skills to go ahead and write it. If you have intermediate-to-advanced Chef experience - particularly with knowledge you'd gain from O'Reilly's Learning Chef - you're ready to get started.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: O'Reilly Media
• Seitenzahl: 385
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 177mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 645g
• ISBN-13: 9781491949351
• ISBN-10: 149194935X
• Artikelnr.: 40725506

Autorenporträt

Jon Cowie is a senior operations engineer at Etsy where he mixes his love of both coding and operations to try and solve interesting problems. He has created and open sourced a number of projects, including the Chef tools knife-spork and knife-preflight, and has spoken at several of O'Reilly's Velocity conferences.