Customizing Chef Getting the Most Out of Your Infrastructure Automation 22069

With Early Release ebooks, you get access to books while they are being written so you can take advantage of these technologies right now. You'll receive updates when content is added, as well as the completed ebooks. You get free lifetime access, multiple file formats, and free updates. 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.