Summary

A major attraction to Chef and infrastructure automation is the ability to deploy software and provision systems quickly and consistently. Using the cookbooks and examples outlined in this chapter, you should be able to model your application and its components, gather cookbooks required to deploy needed software, build cookbooks to configure and deploy custom software, and extend the examples to provide more functionalities or enhance your infrastructure.

Now that you have seen how to take an application from development to deployment, let's take a look at some more advanced examples of cookbook development, including writing custom providers and resources, working with secure data, searching Chef, and other ways of enhancing our recipes and cookbooks.