{"product_id":"customizing-chef-jon-cowie-9781491949351","title":"Customizing Chef: Getting the Most Out of Your Infrastructure Automation","description":"\u003cp\u003eTake advantage of Chef's highly customizable design to tackle specific automation issues that you can't solve by simply using Chef's tools, resources, and services out of the box. With this practical guide, you'll examine the internal structure of this configuration management technology and learn where, how, and why to add custom code. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Author Jon Cowie not only provides code snippets and practical advice for customizing Chef, but also helps you determine case by case whether it's in your best interests to customize at all. If you have intermediate-to-advanced Chef experience, this book is indispensable. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplore Chef's typical setups and why you'd want to customize them \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLearn the Ruby concepts needed to write customizations \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCustomize the Chef run process and explore Chef's internal classes \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGain more insight into your Chef runs through handlers and Chef's event stream \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLevel up your Chef recipes by writing your own resources and providers \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCreate and extend plugins for Knife--Chef's command-line tool \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInteract with the Chef API to write scripts and reports \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLearn how to contribute customizations to the Chef community \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jon Cowie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 149194935X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781491949351\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e O'Reilly Media\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/14\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 385\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.24h x 6.91w x 0.81d","brand":"Jon Cowie","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44254953537791,"sku":"9781491949351","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b553981f-1007-402c-af27-020bdcbdcab3.jpg?v=1694615263","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/customizing-chef-jon-cowie-9781491949351","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}