Using Chef with Microsoft Azure

Using Chef with Microsoft Azure 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.§§This book takes you through the process of writing 'recipes' in Chef to describe your infrastructure and application dependencies, and simplify your configuration management processes. You'll also meet the Chef tools that can be executed from the command line to provision complete environments within Microsoft Azure.§§There are now a wide variety of tools and approaches that can be taken to provision resources, virtual machines and their dependencies 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.§§Each chapter has practical exercises highlight the capabilities of both Chef and Microsoft Azure from an automation perspective and can be executed on Windows, Mac or Linux platforms.§