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In case the cookbook is directly deployed and run on the production server, there are high chances that the cookbook can break up in production. The best way to prevent…

Writing Chef cookbooks is always hard. It makes it even harder because of long feedback cycle of uploading them to the Chef server, provisioning a vagrant VM, checking how they…

Running Chef-Client as daemon helps in knowing the state of all the nodes at any point of time. This help in running the Chef-Client at any point of time. Pre-requisites…

Chef helps in performing environment specific configuration. It is always a good idea to have a separate environment for development, testing, and production. Chef enables grouping nodes into separate environments…

Roles in Chef are a logical way of grouping nodes. Typical cases are to have roles for web servers, database servers, and so on. One can set custom run list…

The features of defining cookbook dependencies help in managing cookbook. This feature is used when we want to use the functionality of one cookbook in other cookbooks. For example, if…

Cookbooks are fundamental working units of Chef, which consists of all the details related to working units, having the capability to modify configuration and the state of any system configured…

Chef-Solo is an open source tool that runs locally and allows to provision guest machines using Chef cookbooks without the complication of any Chef client and server configuration. It helps…

Knife is Chef’s command-line tool to interact with the Chef server. One uses it for uploading cookbooks and managing other aspects of Chef. It provides an interface between the chefDK…

Test Kitchen is Chef’s integrated testing framework. It enables writing test recipes, which will run on the VMs once they are instantiated and converged using the cookbook. The test recipes…