Summary

By now you have been exposed to a lot of what Chef has to offer the DevOps community. You have seen what Chef does, how to install it, and how it works. Throughout this book, you have been introduced to some new ways of thinking about how to model infrastructure and use automated tools to manage it.

At this point, you hopefully understand how to model your infrastructure with Chef as well as install the various components related to Chef, ranging from the server to the client. From here, you can take what you've learned about the various components of Chef and use that information to build more advanced cookbooks to deploy your software and manage your infrastructure, ranging from cloud hosts to physical on-site hardware and even virtual machines using Vagrant. Once you have gotten things working, you can automate your configuration tools and ensure the reliability of your cookbooks through unit and integration tests as well.

Now, it is your turn to take this information and your new skills to automate your systems infrastructure in order to build exciting new things!