Customizing Chef

Take advantage of Chefs highly customizable design to tackle specific automation issues that you cant solve by simply using Chefs tools, resources, and services out of the box. With this practical guide, youll examine the internal structure of this configuration management technology and learn where, how, and why to add custom code.Author Jon Cowie not only provides code snippets and practical advice for customizing Chef, but also helps you determine case by case whether its in your best interests to customize at all. If you have intermediate-to-advanced Chef experience, this book is indispensable.Explore Chefs typical setups and why youd want to customize themLearn the Ruby concepts needed to write customizationsCustomize the Chef run process and explore Chefs internal classesGain more insight into your Chef runs through handlers and Chefs event streamLevel up your Chef recipes by writing your own resources and providersCreate and extend plugins for KnifeChefs command-line toolInteract with the Chef API to write scripts and reportsLearn how to contribute customizations to the Chef community