{"product_id":"using-chef-with-microsoft-azure-9781484214770","title":"Using Chef with Microsoft Azure","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Stuart Preston\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Apress\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: System Administration - Storage \u0026amp; Retrieval\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Back Cover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is your hands-on guide to infrastructure provisioning and configuration management in the cloud using Chef's open source, cross-platform toolset. With over 10,000 customers joining the Microsoft Azure cloud platform each week and steadily increasing usage, the need for automation approaches has never been greater. This book provides both practical examples and a much needed strategic overview of how these two technologies can be combined.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eUsing Chef with Microsoft Azure\u003c\/em\u003e takes you through the process of writing 'recipes' in Chef to describe your infrastructure as code, and simplify your configuration management processes. You'll also meet the Chef tools that can be used to provision complete environments within Microsoft Azure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are now a wide variety of tools and approaches that can be taken to provision resources such as virtual machines within Microsoft Azure. This book demonstrates them, discusses the benefits and weaknesses of each approach, and shows how a continuous provisioning pipeline can be established as part of a reliable, repeatable, and robust provisioning process.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach chapter has practical exercises that highlight the capabilities of both Chef and Microsoft Azure from an automation perspective and can be executed on Windows, Mac, or Linux platforms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this book, you'll learn: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe purpose and principles behind automated provisioning\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMicrosoft Azure concepts and management options\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to deploy Chef Azure Virtual Machine Extensions using PowerShell, Azure command-line tools, and Chef Provisioning\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChef Provisioning techniques, including provisioning PaaS resources such as KeyVault\u003c\/li\u003eHow to integrate quality tooling into the Chef development lifecycle, including Test Kitchen and InSpec with Azure compute resources\u003cli\u003eHow to set up a pipeline for continuous provisioning with Chef and Azure\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45276180480151,"sku":"9781484214770","price":2791.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781484214770.webp?v=1769284934","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/using-chef-with-microsoft-azure-9781484214770","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}