Introduction to Chef Meetup – 28th July 2014

28th July 2014 – Introduction to Chef held at Sacon Group for the Chef Meetup group

Chef and Chef DK: The Chef Development Kit

• by Michael Ducy (@mfdii), a Global Partner Evangelist at Chef
• PDF slides
• Chef essentially enables the “infrastructure as code” devops movement
  • Versionable, testable, and repeatable as application code
  • Relies on reusable definitions known as recipes to automate infrastructure tasks
  • Recipes use building blocks called resources (e.g. file / template / package)
  • Recipes are stored in cookbooks
  • A cookbook is the fundamental unit of configuration and policy distribution
  • Chef server stores your recipes as well as other configuration data
  • Chef client is installed on each node in your network
  • Chef client periodically polls the Chef server for new configurations and applies if necessary
• Chef DK
  • A component of Chef to enable organizations to develop internal best practices for Cookbook development and testing
  • A curated set of open source tools for Cookbook development
  • Download at http://downloads.getchef.com/chef-dk
• Tools
  • chef – a new command to make development easier
  • Berkshelf – automatically resolve cookbook dependencies
  • Test Kitchen – framework for integration testing
  • ChefSpec – unit testing of Chef cookbooks
  • Food Critic – linting tool for Chef cookbooks
  • Standard Chef tools – knife, chef-zero, ohai, chef-client
• Other Links
  • Cookbook Authoring and Testing – https://micgo.net­
  • Learn Chef – http://learnchef.com­

Kumolus

• https://kumolus.com/
• Shareable, collaborative, drag and drop infrastructure design