Automation through Chef Opscode Automation through Chef Opscode provides an in depth understanding of Chef which is written in Ruby and Erlang for configuration management cloud infrastructure management system administration and network management. Targeted at administrators consultants and architect the book guides them through the advanced features of the tool which are necessary for infrastructure automation devops automation and reporting. The book presumes knowledge of Ruby and Erlang which are used as reference languages for creating recipes and cookbooks and as a refresher on them to help the reader get on speed with the flow of book. The book provides step by step instructions on installation and configuration of Chef usage scenarios of Chef in infrastructure automation by providing common scenarios like virtual machine provisioning OS configuration for Windows Linux and Unix provisioning and configuration of web servers like Apache along with popular databases like MySQL. It further elaborates on the creation of recipes and cookbooks which help in deployment of servers and applications to any physical virtual or cloud location no matter the size of the infrastructure. The books covers advanced features like LWRPs and Knife and also contains several illustrative sample cookbooks on MySQL Apache and CouchDB deployment using a step by step approach This book provides an in depth understanding of Chef (written in Ruby and Erlang) for configuration management cloud infrastructure management system administration and network management. Targeted at administrators consultants and architects it will show them the advanced features which are necessary for infrastructure automation devops automation and reporting. It presumes knowledge of Ruby and Erlang which are used as reference languages for creating recipes and cookbooks. The book provides step by step instructions on installation and configuration of Chef usage scenarios of Chef in infrastructure automation by providing common scenarios like virtual machine provisioning OS configuration for Windows Linux and Unix provisioning and configuration of web servers like Apache along with popular databases like MySQL. It discusses the creation of recipes and cookbooks which help in deployment of servers and applications to any physical virtual or cloud location no matter the size of the infrastructure.