Recipes are a collection of resources, written in Ruby. Chef doesn’t have a custom DSL to learn(yay!). It doesn’t take a full fledged Ruby developer to write code for Chef, understanding the basics will be more than enough to functions productively while using Chef. Basic programming principles can also be applied to recipes. This means […]
0 CommentsA resource is a desire state of configuration for a given item, and the code block describes the desired state and steps for achieving the desired configuration. Resource are managed within “recipes” and are generally grouped together within cookbooks for specific software and tasks. A resource maps to a “provider”, which defines the steps to […]
0 CommentsWhenever Chef runs on a node, a Convergence happens. There are 3 steps to a convergence. They can be a part of an automated workflow pipeline, or run manually. Pre-convergance Pre-convergance happens before Chef is run. It can be added using Chef Automate or Chef Workflow, it can be added manually, or using tools like […]
0 CommentsChef is a configuration management and deployment tool, designed for the management of nodes within an environment. Configuration management is the process of managing systems that ensures consistency of different settings, according to a known blueprint. It doesn’t rely on institutional or tribal knowledge gathered from multiple resources on the development or ops team, and […]
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