From the course: Cisco DevNet Associate (200-901) Cert Prep 5: Infrastructure and Automation
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Overview of the Chef automation tool
From the course: Cisco DevNet Associate (200-901) Cert Prep 5: Infrastructure and Automation
Overview of the Chef automation tool
- [Instructor] Let's take a look at the Chef Automation Tools, with emphasis on network automation. Chef is both the name of the company, as well as the name of the software of this configuration management framework. The software is written in Ruby and Erlang, and it uses a pure Ruby domain specific language for writing system configuration file, called recipes. The recipes could then be grouped into cookbooks to describe a series of resources that a node should be in of a particular state. Chef runs client server mode similar to Puppet. Chef clients have to be installed with the client sending facts about the managed node back to the Chef server. The Chef server will maintain the recipes and cookbooks for the client to retrieve and update the configuration for. As of April 2nd, 2019, Chef announced that all of their products are now open-source under the Apache 2.0 license. What are some of the Chef components? So…
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