- Chef is a system and cloud infrastructure automation framework.
- It easy to deploy servers and applications to any physical, virtual, or cloud location, no matter the size of the infrastructure.
Overview of Chef - Fundamentals Webinar Series Part 1Chef
This is an Overview of Chef. After viewing this webinar you will be able to:
- Describe how Chef thinks about Infrastructure Automation
- Define the following terms:
- Resource
- Recipe
- Node
- Run List
- Search
- Login to Hosted Chef
- Run `knife` commands from your workstation
Video of this webinar can be found at the following URL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5lHUpzoCYo&list=PL11cZfNdwNyPnZA9D1MbVqldGuOWqbumZ
This document discusses the server configuration management tool Chef. It begins by outlining problems with manual system administration and explains that Chef allows for repeatable, version controlled configurations through recipes defined in Ruby. It then describes Chef's client-server architecture and its embrace of modern web technologies. The remainder of the document outlines Chef's components like nodes, attributes, cookbooks and resources and concludes with a link to a demo.
Automating your infrastructure with ChefJohn Ewart
This document provides an overview of how to automate infrastructure using Chef:
1. Chef is a tool that helps automate infrastructure management using code and recipes. It can provision, configure, deploy, and orchestrate systems.
2. Chef is used by many large companies and has a large community. It allows managing complex infrastructure on-premises or in the cloud through centralized configuration.
3. The document provides examples of how Chef can be used to provision servers, configure software, manage users/directories/databases, deploy code, and more through resources and recipes. It also discusses Chef concepts like nodes, roles, attributes, and environments.
Introduction to Chef: Automate Your Infrastructure by Modeling It In CodeJosh Padnick
Presentation by Josh Padnick given at Desert Code Camp on April 5, 2014. Introduces OpsCode Chef with a special emphasis on learning the key Chef concepts. Also includes tips & tricks and references to best practices.
This document provides instructions for setting up a Chef environment, including installing a Chef server, configuring a workstation, and registering a node. It discusses the basics of Chef and its architecture involving workstations, nodes, and a server managed through Knife. Administrators can opt for a hosted or on-premises Chef server. The workstation is configured using Knife and keys are used to authenticate nodes which run Chef client.
Chef Fundamentals Training Series Module 3: Setting up Nodes and Cookbook Aut...Chef Software, Inc.
The document provides instructions for setting up a node and writing a cookbook using Chef. Key points:
- It describes how to install Chef on a node using "knife bootstrap" and configure it to use an Organization.
- It explains that cookbooks contain recipes, files and templates to configure infrastructure using resources like packages, services and files.
- The tutorial walks through creating an "apache" cookbook with recipes to install the Apache package, start the service and enable it to start on boot using package and service resources.
This document provides an overview of Chef, a configuration management tool. It discusses how Chef works using a client-server model to configure nodes according to their run lists and roles. Cookbooks contain recipes that specify resources to configure nodes. Chef helps ensure consistency across environments like development, testing, and production.
Overview of Chef - Fundamentals Webinar Series Part 1Chef
This is an Overview of Chef. After viewing this webinar you will be able to:
- Describe how Chef thinks about Infrastructure Automation
- Define the following terms:
- Resource
- Recipe
- Node
- Run List
- Search
- Login to Hosted Chef
- Run `knife` commands from your workstation
Video of this webinar can be found at the following URL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5lHUpzoCYo&list=PL11cZfNdwNyPnZA9D1MbVqldGuOWqbumZ
This document discusses the server configuration management tool Chef. It begins by outlining problems with manual system administration and explains that Chef allows for repeatable, version controlled configurations through recipes defined in Ruby. It then describes Chef's client-server architecture and its embrace of modern web technologies. The remainder of the document outlines Chef's components like nodes, attributes, cookbooks and resources and concludes with a link to a demo.
Automating your infrastructure with ChefJohn Ewart
This document provides an overview of how to automate infrastructure using Chef:
1. Chef is a tool that helps automate infrastructure management using code and recipes. It can provision, configure, deploy, and orchestrate systems.
2. Chef is used by many large companies and has a large community. It allows managing complex infrastructure on-premises or in the cloud through centralized configuration.
3. The document provides examples of how Chef can be used to provision servers, configure software, manage users/directories/databases, deploy code, and more through resources and recipes. It also discusses Chef concepts like nodes, roles, attributes, and environments.
Introduction to Chef: Automate Your Infrastructure by Modeling It In CodeJosh Padnick
Presentation by Josh Padnick given at Desert Code Camp on April 5, 2014. Introduces OpsCode Chef with a special emphasis on learning the key Chef concepts. Also includes tips & tricks and references to best practices.
This document provides instructions for setting up a Chef environment, including installing a Chef server, configuring a workstation, and registering a node. It discusses the basics of Chef and its architecture involving workstations, nodes, and a server managed through Knife. Administrators can opt for a hosted or on-premises Chef server. The workstation is configured using Knife and keys are used to authenticate nodes which run Chef client.
Chef Fundamentals Training Series Module 3: Setting up Nodes and Cookbook Aut...Chef Software, Inc.
The document provides instructions for setting up a node and writing a cookbook using Chef. Key points:
- It describes how to install Chef on a node using "knife bootstrap" and configure it to use an Organization.
- It explains that cookbooks contain recipes, files and templates to configure infrastructure using resources like packages, services and files.
- The tutorial walks through creating an "apache" cookbook with recipes to install the Apache package, start the service and enable it to start on boot using package and service resources.
This document provides an overview of Chef, a configuration management tool. It discusses how Chef works using a client-server model to configure nodes according to their run lists and roles. Cookbooks contain recipes that specify resources to configure nodes. Chef helps ensure consistency across environments like development, testing, and production.
Jonathan Weiss presented on infrastructure automation using the configuration management tool Chef. Chef uses Ruby scripts called cookbooks and recipes to configure and provision servers. It can configure multiple servers from a single definition file. Chef supports common infrastructure resources like packages, files, templates and services. It enforces best practices of infrastructure as code and makes deployment repeatable and automated through all environment stages.
This document discusses using Chef with AWS. It provides an overview of key points on Chef including its execution methods and use of Chef Server for bootstrapping nodes. It describes using Chef for continuous delivery processes on AWS and outlines architectures for high availability Chef implementations on AWS. The document concludes with links to additional Chef resources and a demo of dependency management with Chef Server on AWS.
Chef is an infrastructure automation tool that allows users to define and maintain server configurations. It uses recipes, resources, cookbooks and roles to provision and configure servers. Chef works by installing a Chef client on nodes that runs recipes to configure the node according to cookbooks. The Chef server stores cookbooks and node data. Users can write recipes in Ruby syntax to define what configuration should be applied to nodes.
The document discusses DevOps and infrastructure as code. It describes how using infrastructure as code allows organizations to automate infrastructure provisioning and management. This enables continuous delivery of applications and infrastructure through a unified software development pipeline. Chef is presented as a tool that can help implement such a DevOps approach through its support for infrastructure as code, compliance automation, and a shared development workflow.
Opscode Webinar: Managing Your VMware Infrastructure with ChefChef Software, Inc.
This document provides an overview of how Chef can be used to manage VMware infrastructure. It discusses four main integration points: 1) VMware Fusion/Workstation and Vagrant to provision development VMs locally, 2) knife-esx to manage individual ESXi hosts, 3) knife-vsphere to manage vCenter and provision/configure VMs, and 4) knife-vcloud to manage vCloud Director and deploy vApps. The document emphasizes that Chef allows infrastructure to be defined as code through recipes and cookbooks rather than using VM templates, making infrastructure more flexible and standardized. It concludes with a demo of Vagrant/Fusion and knife-vsphere.
Chef Fundamentals Training Series Module 2: Workstation SetupChef Software, Inc.
This document provides instructions for setting up a workstation to manage infrastructure with Chef. It covers installing Chef, creating an account on the hosted Chef server, downloading the starter kit which contains files like cookbooks and roles, and configuring the knife command line tool to connect to the Chef server. The document also gives an overview of the components that make up a Chef-managed infrastructure including nodes, roles, environments and data bags.
Chef is a configuration management tool that turns infrastructure into code. It allows automating how systems are built, deployed, and managed. With Chef, infrastructure is versioned, tested, and repeatable like application code. The document provides an overview of key Chef concepts including the Chef server, nodes, organizations, environments, cookbooks, roles, and data bags. It also describes the basic Chef environment and components like the workstation, Chef client, and knife tool.
Chef Tutorial | Chef Tutorial For Beginners | DevOps Chef Tutorial | DevOps T...Simplilearn
This presentation on Chef will help you understand why Chef is needed, what is Chef, what is configuration management, infrastructure as code, components of Chef, Chef architecture & how it works, and you will also see a demo on Chef. Chef is an open source tool developed by Opscode. It is written in Ruby and Erlang. It automates the configuration and maintenance of multiple servers. Configuration management is a collection of engineering practices that provides a systematic way to manage entities for efficient deployment. These entities include code, infrastructure and people. Now let us get started and understand Chef in detail.
Below topics are explained in this Chef presentation:
1. Why Chef?
2. What is Chef?
3. Configuration management
4. Infrastructure as code
5. Components of Chef
6. Chef architecture
7. Flavors of Chef
8. Chef demo
Simplilearn's DevOps Certification Training Course will prepare you for a career in DevOps, the fast-growing field that bridges the gap between software developers and operations. You’ll become en expert in the principles of continuous development and deployment, automation of configuration management, inter-team collaboration and IT service agility, using modern DevOps tools such as Git, Docker, Jenkins, Puppet and Nagios. DevOps jobs are highly paid and in great demand, so start on your path today.
Why learn DevOps?
Simplilearn’s DevOps training course is designed to help you become a DevOps practitioner and apply the latest in DevOps methodology to automate your software development lifecycle right out of the class. You will master configuration management; continuous integration deployment, delivery and monitoring using DevOps tools such as Git, Docker, Jenkins, Puppet and Nagios in a practical, hands-on and interactive approach. The DevOps training course focuses heavily on the use of Docker containers, a technology that is revolutionizing the way apps are deployed in the cloud today and is a critical skillset to master in the cloud age.
Who should take this course?
DevOps career opportunities are thriving worldwide. DevOps was featured as one of the 11 best jobs in America for 2017, according to CBS News, and data from Payscale.com shows that DevOps Managers earn as much as $122,234 per year, with DevOps engineers making as much as $151,461. DevOps jobs are the third-highest tech role ranked by employer demand on Indeed.com but have the second-highest talent deficit.
1. This DevOps training course will be of benefit the following professional roles:
2. Software Developers
3. Technical Project Managers
4. Architects
5. Operations Support
6. Deployment engineers
7. IT managers
8. Development managers
Learn more at: https://www.simplilearn.com/
Chef Fundamentals Training Series Module 1: Overview of ChefChef Software, Inc.
This document provides an overview of Chef fundamentals. It introduces Nathen Harvey as the presenter and outlines objectives to teach attendees how to automate infrastructure tasks with Chef. Key concepts discussed include Chef's architecture, tools, and how to apply its primitives to solve problems. The document explains that learning Chef is like learning a language and emphasizes using Chef to learn it. It provides an agenda covering topics like workstation setup, the node object, cookbooks, and using community cookbooks.
Community Cookbooks & further resources - Fundamentals Webinar Series Part 6Chef
The document provides an agenda and overview for a Chef Fundamentals webinar. The webinar will cover topics such as setting up a Chef workstation, managing nodes, using Chef resources and recipes, roles, data bags, environments, and community cookbooks. It instructs attendees to ask questions during the webinar using the chat window or discussion forum. The slides and recorded video will be made available after the webinar.
Chef vs Puppet vs Ansible vs SaltStack | Configuration Management Tools Compa...Edureka!
This DevOps Tutorial takes you through what is Configuration Management all about and basic concepts of Infrastructure as code. It also compares the four most widely used Configuration Management tools i.e. Chef, Puppet, Ansible and SaltStack.
Check our complete DevOps YouTube playlist here: http://goo.gl/O2vo13
DevOps Tutorial Blog Series here: https://goo.gl/P0zAfF
When most people talk about automating infrastructure, they focus on things like consistency, scalability, and flexibility. While fine goals, we recently converted several projects to Chef for both systems AND application deployment, and found that, with a little work, these tools could also help you enable better software quality assurance, load modeling, and even improve resource allocation.
By sharing cookbooks across projects, we were able to standardize practices and eliminate arbitrary differences, while using parameterization to perfectly isolate the special needs of each project. This allowed us to transfer knowledge among staff much more quickly. Pulling in and parameterizing application state – database contents, website assets, uploaded content – allowed us to spin up new environments with as much or as little state as needed. Integrating with Vagrant and Jenkins, we were then able to use chef to treat the entire image – system and application – as a test fixture. As each engineer (ops or dev) has visibility into the whole stack, we can more easily move people between dev and ops, or between projects.
Chef is an open-source configuration management and automation tool. It allows users to define infrastructure through recipes organized into cookbooks. Recipes contain resources that describe how to configure systems. Chef runs use recipes and attributes to test systems and repair any deviations from the defined state. Attributes provide details about nodes and can be used to customize configurations. Ohai detects node attributes which are provided to Chef runs. Cookbooks contain recipes, attributes, files and other components to define common scenarios. Node attributes can be defined in cookbooks and overridden to customize configurations for different environments.
This document provides an introduction to Chef configuration management. It defines key Chef concepts like workstations, nodes, clients, cookbooks and roles. It explains how Chef uses a centralized server and run lists to define and enforce infrastructure configurations. The document demonstrates common Knife commands for managing nodes, environments, roles and cookbooks. It also introduces Berkshelf for managing cookbook dependencies and data bags for storing secure data on the Chef server.
Chef is an open source configuration management tool that emphasizes communication and collaboration between developers and operations. It works best when developers and operations work together to make infrastructure testable, versioned, repeatable and distributable. Chef has major components like the Chef server, Chef client and workstation. It uses concepts like organizations, environments, roles, nodes, recipes and cookbooks to configure nodes.
This document discusses Chef Cookbook workflow testing. It begins with an introduction to Chef and its core components like resources, recipes, and cookbooks. It then emphasizes the importance of testing infrastructure code like Chef cookbooks. Various testing techniques for Chef cookbooks are presented, including linting with Rubocop, style checking with FoodCritic, unit testing with ChefSpec, and integration testing using Test Kitchen. The document stresses treating infrastructure code like any other codebase by implementing practices like version control, continuous integration, and separation of concerns. It provides examples of implementing some of these testing techniques and outlines an example pipeline for testing and releasing Chef cookbooks.
This document provides an overview of Opscode and how it uses Chef to help businesses create a "coded business" through technology automation. It discusses how Chef can be used for configuration management, cloud management, and continuous delivery to enable business agility, increase development velocity and consistency, and automate infrastructure. Chef provides a common platform and reusable code/cookbooks to help manage increasing IT complexity as businesses move to cloud-based models.
This document provides an overview and agenda for an introductory training course on testing infrastructure automation code with Chef and its tools. The agenda includes an overview of Chef, discussing resources, describing policies with recipes and cookbooks, using a sandbox for testing, verifying node state, getting faster feedback, writing clean code, and wrapping up. Hands-on labs are emphasized for learning Chef through practice. Questions are encouraged throughout, and breaks will be taken as needed.
This slide deck Introduces Chef and its role in DevOps. The agenda of the deck is as follows:
- A Review of DevOps
- BMs Continuous Delivery solution
- Introduction to Chef
- Chef and Continuous Delivery
Read more on DevOps: http://sdarchitect.wordpress.com/understanding-devops/
The document discusses infrastructure automation using Chef. It describes Chef as a library for configuration management, a configuration management system, and a systems integration platform. It discusses principles like idempotence and providing primitives that allow users to solve their own problems leveraging their existing skills as programmers. Infrastructure as code and managing configuration through resources, recipes, roles, and run lists is also summarized.
Jonathan Weiss presented on infrastructure automation using the configuration management tool Chef. Chef uses Ruby scripts called cookbooks and recipes to configure and provision servers. It can configure multiple servers from a single definition file. Chef supports common infrastructure resources like packages, files, templates and services. It enforces best practices of infrastructure as code and makes deployment repeatable and automated through all environment stages.
This document discusses using Chef with AWS. It provides an overview of key points on Chef including its execution methods and use of Chef Server for bootstrapping nodes. It describes using Chef for continuous delivery processes on AWS and outlines architectures for high availability Chef implementations on AWS. The document concludes with links to additional Chef resources and a demo of dependency management with Chef Server on AWS.
Chef is an infrastructure automation tool that allows users to define and maintain server configurations. It uses recipes, resources, cookbooks and roles to provision and configure servers. Chef works by installing a Chef client on nodes that runs recipes to configure the node according to cookbooks. The Chef server stores cookbooks and node data. Users can write recipes in Ruby syntax to define what configuration should be applied to nodes.
The document discusses DevOps and infrastructure as code. It describes how using infrastructure as code allows organizations to automate infrastructure provisioning and management. This enables continuous delivery of applications and infrastructure through a unified software development pipeline. Chef is presented as a tool that can help implement such a DevOps approach through its support for infrastructure as code, compliance automation, and a shared development workflow.
Opscode Webinar: Managing Your VMware Infrastructure with ChefChef Software, Inc.
This document provides an overview of how Chef can be used to manage VMware infrastructure. It discusses four main integration points: 1) VMware Fusion/Workstation and Vagrant to provision development VMs locally, 2) knife-esx to manage individual ESXi hosts, 3) knife-vsphere to manage vCenter and provision/configure VMs, and 4) knife-vcloud to manage vCloud Director and deploy vApps. The document emphasizes that Chef allows infrastructure to be defined as code through recipes and cookbooks rather than using VM templates, making infrastructure more flexible and standardized. It concludes with a demo of Vagrant/Fusion and knife-vsphere.
Chef Fundamentals Training Series Module 2: Workstation SetupChef Software, Inc.
This document provides instructions for setting up a workstation to manage infrastructure with Chef. It covers installing Chef, creating an account on the hosted Chef server, downloading the starter kit which contains files like cookbooks and roles, and configuring the knife command line tool to connect to the Chef server. The document also gives an overview of the components that make up a Chef-managed infrastructure including nodes, roles, environments and data bags.
Chef is a configuration management tool that turns infrastructure into code. It allows automating how systems are built, deployed, and managed. With Chef, infrastructure is versioned, tested, and repeatable like application code. The document provides an overview of key Chef concepts including the Chef server, nodes, organizations, environments, cookbooks, roles, and data bags. It also describes the basic Chef environment and components like the workstation, Chef client, and knife tool.
Chef Tutorial | Chef Tutorial For Beginners | DevOps Chef Tutorial | DevOps T...Simplilearn
This presentation on Chef will help you understand why Chef is needed, what is Chef, what is configuration management, infrastructure as code, components of Chef, Chef architecture & how it works, and you will also see a demo on Chef. Chef is an open source tool developed by Opscode. It is written in Ruby and Erlang. It automates the configuration and maintenance of multiple servers. Configuration management is a collection of engineering practices that provides a systematic way to manage entities for efficient deployment. These entities include code, infrastructure and people. Now let us get started and understand Chef in detail.
Below topics are explained in this Chef presentation:
1. Why Chef?
2. What is Chef?
3. Configuration management
4. Infrastructure as code
5. Components of Chef
6. Chef architecture
7. Flavors of Chef
8. Chef demo
Simplilearn's DevOps Certification Training Course will prepare you for a career in DevOps, the fast-growing field that bridges the gap between software developers and operations. You’ll become en expert in the principles of continuous development and deployment, automation of configuration management, inter-team collaboration and IT service agility, using modern DevOps tools such as Git, Docker, Jenkins, Puppet and Nagios. DevOps jobs are highly paid and in great demand, so start on your path today.
Why learn DevOps?
Simplilearn’s DevOps training course is designed to help you become a DevOps practitioner and apply the latest in DevOps methodology to automate your software development lifecycle right out of the class. You will master configuration management; continuous integration deployment, delivery and monitoring using DevOps tools such as Git, Docker, Jenkins, Puppet and Nagios in a practical, hands-on and interactive approach. The DevOps training course focuses heavily on the use of Docker containers, a technology that is revolutionizing the way apps are deployed in the cloud today and is a critical skillset to master in the cloud age.
Who should take this course?
DevOps career opportunities are thriving worldwide. DevOps was featured as one of the 11 best jobs in America for 2017, according to CBS News, and data from Payscale.com shows that DevOps Managers earn as much as $122,234 per year, with DevOps engineers making as much as $151,461. DevOps jobs are the third-highest tech role ranked by employer demand on Indeed.com but have the second-highest talent deficit.
1. This DevOps training course will be of benefit the following professional roles:
2. Software Developers
3. Technical Project Managers
4. Architects
5. Operations Support
6. Deployment engineers
7. IT managers
8. Development managers
Learn more at: https://www.simplilearn.com/
Chef Fundamentals Training Series Module 1: Overview of ChefChef Software, Inc.
This document provides an overview of Chef fundamentals. It introduces Nathen Harvey as the presenter and outlines objectives to teach attendees how to automate infrastructure tasks with Chef. Key concepts discussed include Chef's architecture, tools, and how to apply its primitives to solve problems. The document explains that learning Chef is like learning a language and emphasizes using Chef to learn it. It provides an agenda covering topics like workstation setup, the node object, cookbooks, and using community cookbooks.
Community Cookbooks & further resources - Fundamentals Webinar Series Part 6Chef
The document provides an agenda and overview for a Chef Fundamentals webinar. The webinar will cover topics such as setting up a Chef workstation, managing nodes, using Chef resources and recipes, roles, data bags, environments, and community cookbooks. It instructs attendees to ask questions during the webinar using the chat window or discussion forum. The slides and recorded video will be made available after the webinar.
Chef vs Puppet vs Ansible vs SaltStack | Configuration Management Tools Compa...Edureka!
This DevOps Tutorial takes you through what is Configuration Management all about and basic concepts of Infrastructure as code. It also compares the four most widely used Configuration Management tools i.e. Chef, Puppet, Ansible and SaltStack.
Check our complete DevOps YouTube playlist here: http://goo.gl/O2vo13
DevOps Tutorial Blog Series here: https://goo.gl/P0zAfF
When most people talk about automating infrastructure, they focus on things like consistency, scalability, and flexibility. While fine goals, we recently converted several projects to Chef for both systems AND application deployment, and found that, with a little work, these tools could also help you enable better software quality assurance, load modeling, and even improve resource allocation.
By sharing cookbooks across projects, we were able to standardize practices and eliminate arbitrary differences, while using parameterization to perfectly isolate the special needs of each project. This allowed us to transfer knowledge among staff much more quickly. Pulling in and parameterizing application state – database contents, website assets, uploaded content – allowed us to spin up new environments with as much or as little state as needed. Integrating with Vagrant and Jenkins, we were then able to use chef to treat the entire image – system and application – as a test fixture. As each engineer (ops or dev) has visibility into the whole stack, we can more easily move people between dev and ops, or between projects.
Chef is an open-source configuration management and automation tool. It allows users to define infrastructure through recipes organized into cookbooks. Recipes contain resources that describe how to configure systems. Chef runs use recipes and attributes to test systems and repair any deviations from the defined state. Attributes provide details about nodes and can be used to customize configurations. Ohai detects node attributes which are provided to Chef runs. Cookbooks contain recipes, attributes, files and other components to define common scenarios. Node attributes can be defined in cookbooks and overridden to customize configurations for different environments.
This document provides an introduction to Chef configuration management. It defines key Chef concepts like workstations, nodes, clients, cookbooks and roles. It explains how Chef uses a centralized server and run lists to define and enforce infrastructure configurations. The document demonstrates common Knife commands for managing nodes, environments, roles and cookbooks. It also introduces Berkshelf for managing cookbook dependencies and data bags for storing secure data on the Chef server.
Chef is an open source configuration management tool that emphasizes communication and collaboration between developers and operations. It works best when developers and operations work together to make infrastructure testable, versioned, repeatable and distributable. Chef has major components like the Chef server, Chef client and workstation. It uses concepts like organizations, environments, roles, nodes, recipes and cookbooks to configure nodes.
This document discusses Chef Cookbook workflow testing. It begins with an introduction to Chef and its core components like resources, recipes, and cookbooks. It then emphasizes the importance of testing infrastructure code like Chef cookbooks. Various testing techniques for Chef cookbooks are presented, including linting with Rubocop, style checking with FoodCritic, unit testing with ChefSpec, and integration testing using Test Kitchen. The document stresses treating infrastructure code like any other codebase by implementing practices like version control, continuous integration, and separation of concerns. It provides examples of implementing some of these testing techniques and outlines an example pipeline for testing and releasing Chef cookbooks.
This document provides an overview of Opscode and how it uses Chef to help businesses create a "coded business" through technology automation. It discusses how Chef can be used for configuration management, cloud management, and continuous delivery to enable business agility, increase development velocity and consistency, and automate infrastructure. Chef provides a common platform and reusable code/cookbooks to help manage increasing IT complexity as businesses move to cloud-based models.
This document provides an overview and agenda for an introductory training course on testing infrastructure automation code with Chef and its tools. The agenda includes an overview of Chef, discussing resources, describing policies with recipes and cookbooks, using a sandbox for testing, verifying node state, getting faster feedback, writing clean code, and wrapping up. Hands-on labs are emphasized for learning Chef through practice. Questions are encouraged throughout, and breaks will be taken as needed.
This slide deck Introduces Chef and its role in DevOps. The agenda of the deck is as follows:
- A Review of DevOps
- BMs Continuous Delivery solution
- Introduction to Chef
- Chef and Continuous Delivery
Read more on DevOps: http://sdarchitect.wordpress.com/understanding-devops/
The document discusses infrastructure automation using Chef. It describes Chef as a library for configuration management, a configuration management system, and a systems integration platform. It discusses principles like idempotence and providing primitives that allow users to solve their own problems leveraging their existing skills as programmers. Infrastructure as code and managing configuration through resources, recipes, roles, and run lists is also summarized.
Jenkins and Chef: Infrastructure CI and Automated DeploymentDan Stine
This presentation discusses two key components of our deployment pipeline: Continuous integration of Chef code and automated deployment of Java applications. CI jobs for Chef code run static analysis and then provision, configure and test EC2 instances. Release jobs publish new cookbook versions to the Chef server. Deployment jobs identify target EC2 and VMware nodes and orchestrate Chef client runs. The flexibility of Jenkins is essential to our overall delivery architecture.
Treat your servers like your Ruby App: Infrastructure as CodeRakuten Group, Inc.
As a Ruby developer, we are responsible for providing unit test harness to support our development. Not only it provides a clean code base, but it also allows you to introduce changes as the needs of your application's supported business over time.
Putting the same effort around your application's infrastructure gives the same benefit as well. Being able to support sudden traffic to your application is as important as delivering features to your users. In this talk, I discussed how to treat your Infrastructure as Code with the same test-driven development techniques you do in your application.
DevOps hackathon Session 2: Basics of ChefAntons Kranga
The document discusses infrastructure provisioning using Chef. It explains that Chef uses a declarative approach where you describe the desired state rather than how to achieve it. Cookbooks contain recipes that describe resources to bring a VM to the specified state. Cookbooks are repeatable, testable units that can install packages, configure services, create users and templates. Vagrant and Chef are often used together, with Vagrant managing VMs and triggering Chef provisioning to install software inside VMs.
This document provides an agenda and overview for a presentation on infrastructure automation with Opscode Chef. The presentation will cover how and why to manage infrastructure with Chef, include a live demo of building a multi-tier infrastructure with Chef, and discuss getting started with Chef including setting up authentication, installing the workstation tools, and uploading a Chef code repository. It will also review key Chef concepts like recipes, roles, and resources and how they enable infrastructure as code.
Kevin Smith is the Director of Server Engineering at Opscode and has been developing software for 17 years including 7 years with Erlang. He discusses infrastructure as code, configuration management with Chef, and how Chef can be used in large environments. Specifically, he covers how Chef uses recipes, roles, attributes and resources to declaratively configure nodes. He also discusses how the Chef server and clients interact and how search is used. Finally, he notes how Chef is open source and has a large community contributing cookbooks and tools to support deployments of all sizes.
This document discusses using Chef to automate IT infrastructure. It covers installing the Chef client and server, creating cookbooks with recipes to configure nodes, uploading cookbooks to the server, managing nodes with run lists and roles, and using community cookbooks. Key steps include generating a starter kit, writing recipes with resources, uploading and applying cookbooks, bootstrapping nodes, and managing configurations through attributes, templates, and metadata.
The document summarizes a DevOps meetup in Madrid in March 2013. It discusses the use of AWS by Socialife, a social media app, to host their APIs, databases, load balancers, and other components. Key aspects of their AWS architecture are described, including over 40 EC2 instances across multiple availability zones, load balancers, VPC configuration, and use of Chef for configuration management and deployments. Advantages like scalability and disadvantages like vendor lock-in are also highlighted. Recommendations include using multiple availability zones, right-sizing instances, and pre-warming load balancers.
This document discusses automating infrastructure with Chef configuration management. It provides an overview of Chef, including that it uses a server-client model with cookbooks, recipes, and run lists to define and enforce configurations. Instructions are given on installing Chef Server on Ubuntu, setting up a Chef client, uploading cookbooks, creating run lists, and using recipes to deploy Apache and custom HTML content for infrastructure automation with Chef.
This document provides an overview of CHEF, including its architecture, main tools, cookbook building blocks, recipes, templates, attributes, roles, nodes, knife, LWRPs, testing with Kitchen, and best practices. The architecture includes a development workstation with chef-dk, knife, and chef-kitchen/other testing tools. Nodes use chef-client and ohai. Cookbooks contain metadata, resources, attributes, files/templates, recipes, libraries, and LWRPs. Recipes are collections of resources written in Ruby DSL. Templates combine text and Ruby. Attributes are accessed in recipes. Knife manages infrastructure on the Chef server. LWRPs extend Chef with custom resources. Kitchen tests cookbooks
This document provides an overview of Puppet and Puppet Enterprise. It summarizes the key components and projects that make up Puppet like Puppet, Facter, Hiera, MCollective and PuppetDB. It describes the capabilities of Puppet Enterprise like configuration management, orchestration, discovery, provisioning and reporting. The document also provides community growth metrics and information on training offered by Puppet Labs.
Introducing Chef | An IT automation for speed and awesomenessRamit Surana
Chef turns infrastructure into code. With Chef, you can automate how you build, deploy, and manage your infrastructure.
It is a powerful automation platform that transforms complex infrastructure into code, bringing your servers and services to life.
The document discusses the need for improved collaboration between developers and system administrators (sysadmins) to enable business objectives. It notes that developers focus on implementing new features quickly without considering operational impacts, while sysadmins aim to minimize risks by avoiding changes. This leads to delays in deployments and last-minute releases. The document recommends automating infrastructure provisioning and configuration using a tool like Chef to establish a common workflow and shared objectives between teams.
Infrastructure as Code Continuous Integration: A Delivery Pipeline Journey Se...Amazon Web Services
The aim of this presentation is to provide a technical overview of how we built a Continuous Delivery pipeline for one of our key clients. More broadly, we’ll discuss the path we took to get to our current state – including the successes, the surprises and the shifts along the way – because as is so often the case, it is the journey that yields the greatest insight rather than the destination.
Chef is an automation platform that configures and manages infrastructure as code. It consists of a Chef server that manages nodes through Chef clients. The Chef framework includes a Chef server, nodes, workstations, Chef clients, and knife. Cookbooks containing configuration information are stored on the Chef server and pushed to clients, which apply any changes to nodes. Many companies use Chef to automate infrastructure configuration and management.
This document provides an overview and introduction to DevOps and Chef configuration management. It discusses how DevOps aims to align development and operations teams through automation, measurement, and sharing. Chef is presented as a tool that supports DevOps principles by allowing infrastructure to be coded and managed as code. The document uses examples to demonstrate how Chef can be used to declaratively define and manage server configurations, applying changes across multiple nodes. It highlights how this approach helps solve problems of manual configuration drift and complexity that arise in traditional infrastructure management.
Immutable infrastructure with Docker and EC2dotCloud
This document discusses Gilt's strategy of using immutable infrastructure with Docker and EC2 to enable continuous delivery and minimize risk when deploying new software versions. Some key points made include:
- Gilt builds Docker containers for each new application version, creates a new "stack" of infrastructure to run the container, and uses incremental rollout and automated rollback to reduce risk.
- Immutable infrastructure emerges naturally with Docker since each version requires new containers and infrastructure rather than updating existing instances.
- Automating deployment, rollback, and incremental rollout across new infrastructure stacks reduces probability, cost and occurrences of failures when deploying new versions.
- Instant rollback is possible by moving traffic back to the previous version's infrastructure if
Chef is a systems integration framework that allows you to define the state that your servers should be in and enforce that state. It provides architecture where Chef clients run on servers and talk to a central Chef server. Key principles of Chef include idempotence, provisioning often, treating infrastructure as code, being data-driven, and having thick clients and a thin server. Chef uses resources, providers, recipes, roles, cookbooks, attributes, and data bags to automate server configuration and management.
Mohit Sethi gives a presentation on Chef, an automation and configuration management tool. He defines Chef as a systems integration framework that brings configuration management benefits to infrastructure. Chef allows users to define what state servers should be in and enforces that state. Key principles of Chef include idempotence, provisioning often, treating infrastructure as code, being data-driven, and having thick clients and a thin server.
This document provides an overview of using Chef and Vagrant to automate server configuration and deployment. It discusses:
- Installing Chef and using tools like chef-apply, chef-solo, and knife to configure servers
- Modeling infrastructure as code using resources, recipes, and cookbooks
- Using community cookbooks and Berkshelf for dependency management
- Provisioning nodes automatically with chef-solo and Vagrant
- Developing cookbooks to deploy applications using tools like the Git resource
OSDC 2013 | Introduction into Chef by Andy HawkinsNETWAYS
This presentation will give an overview about what Chef is and how to access it. It will describe the typical use cases and architecture as well as Cookbooks, data bags and other concepts and will explain how to implement your CM solution. Finally it will show how to drive a successful Chef project.
This document provides an overview of using Chef to manage server environments. It describes Chef as a client-server system that uses declarative recipes to define the desired end state of a server rather than specifying step-by-step configuration processes. Key concepts covered include cookbooks, recipes, attributes, data bags, the Chef server, Chef client, Ohai, and Knife. The document also discusses development tools like Berkshelf and Vagrant, and outlines the typical development cycle of creating a cookbook, developing and testing it, uploading the recipe to the Chef server, and executing it on client servers.
This document discusses infrastructure automation using Chef. It provides an overview of Chef including its history and key principles such as being idempotent. It describes the main Chef components including the chef-client, roles, cookbooks, recipes, attributes and templates. It also outlines the basic Chef workflow and use of tools like knife and search. The document encourages contributions to Chef and questions.
Introduction to Chef - Techsuperwomen SummitJennifer Davis
Interested in speeding up time to production when developing an application? Want to understand how to minimize risk associated with changes? Come learn about infrastructure automation with Chef. In this beginner level workshop, I will teach you the core set of skills needed to implement Chef in your environment whether for work or personal projects. I will cover the basic architecture of Chef and the associated tools that will help you improve your application workflow from design to production.
Chef is an automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code. It uses recipes written in Ruby and Erlang languages to configure, deploy, and manage applications across networks. Chef includes a server to store configuration data and recipes, workstations where developers write recipes, and nodes (physical or virtual machines) that are configured by recipes. Key components of Chef include cookbooks (which contain recipes, attributes, files, and templates), nodes, Ohai (which collects node data), and a workflow involving verifying, building, accepting, and delivering changes through shared pipelines.