{"product_id":"9781484214770","title":"Using Chef with Microsoft Azure","description":"\u003ch1\u003eUsing Chef with Microsoft Azure\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003ePreston, Stuart\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is your hands-on guide to infrastructure provisioning and \nconfiguration management in the cloud using Chef’s open source, \ncross-platform toolset. With over 10,000 customers joining the Microsoft\n Azure cloud platform each week and steadily increasing usage, the need \nfor automation approaches has never been greater. This book provides \nboth practical examples and a much needed strategic overview of how \nthese two technologies can be combined.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eUsing Chef with Microsoft Azure\u003c\/em\u003e\n takes you through the process of writing ‘recipes’ in Chef to describe \nyour infrastructure as code, and simplify your configuration management \nprocesses. You’ll also meet the Chef tools that can be used to provision\n complete environments within Microsoft Azure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are now a \nwide variety of tools and approaches that can be taken to provision \nresources such as virtual machines within Microsoft Azure. This book \ndemonstrates them, discusses the benefits and weaknesses of each \napproach, and shows how a continuous provisioning pipeline can be \nestablished as part of a reliable, repeatable, and robust provisioning \nprocess.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach chapter has practical exercises that highlight the \ncapabilities of both Chef and Microsoft Azure from an automation \nperspective 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\n to integrate quality tooling into the Chef  development lifecycle, \nincluding 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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWho This Book Is For\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book is for infrastructure platform and operations engineers and DevOps specialists\/practitioners working with infrastructure and platform provisioning on Microsoft's public cloud, Azure.\u003cp\u003eAn understanding of programming in any language would be beneficial, but not necessary as the examples are designed to be easily readable by anyone with general IT experience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile it is expected most users picking up this book will be on the Windows platform, a good proportion of compute workload on the Azure platform is Linux based. As a result the book includes examples that are relevant to both Windows and Linux platforms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Apress\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2016-05-18\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9781484214770\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-1-4842-1476-3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 254cm x178cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 227\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Apress","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47676044640396,"sku":"9781484214770","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9781484214770.jpg?v=1776546274","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781484214770","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}