Chef is a configuration management technology used to automate the infrastructure provisioning. It is developed on the basis of Ruby DSL language.

It is used to streamline the task of configuration and managing the company’s server. It has the capability to get integrated with any of the cloud technology.

In DevOps, we use Chef to deploy and manage servers and applications in-house and on the cloud.

Chef is used in infrastructure automation and helps in reducing manual and repetitive tasks for infrastructure management.

In this tutorial , below mentioned topics are covered :

chef - Introduction
chef - Architecture
chef - Version Control System Setup
chef - Workstation Setup
chef - Client Setup
chef - Test Kitchen Setup
chef - Knife Setup
chef - Solo Setup
chef - Cookbooks
chef - Cookbook Dependencies
chef - Roles
chef - Environment
chef - Chef-Client as Daemon
chef - Chef-Shell
chef - Testing Cookbooks
chef - Foodcritic
chef - ChefSpec
chef - Testing Cookbook with Test Kitchen
chef - Nodes
chef - Chef-Client Run