Using Chef with Microsoft Azure [Paperback]

This book is your hands-on guide to infrastructure provisioning andconfiguration management in the cloud using Chefs open source,cross-platform toolset. With over 10,000 customers joining the MicrosoftAzure cloud platform each week and steadily increasing usage, the needfor automation approaches has never been greater. This book providesboth practical examples and a much needed strategic overview of howthese two technologies can be combined.

Using Chef with Microsoft Azuretakes you through the process of writing recipes in Chef to describeyour infrastructure as code, and simplify your configuration managementprocesses. Youll also meet the Chef tools that can be used to provisioncomplete environments within Microsoft Azure.

There are now awide variety of tools and approaches that can be taken to provisionresources such as virtual machines within Microsoft Azure. This bookdemonstrates them, discusses the benefits and weaknesses of eachapproach, and shows how a continuous provisioning pipeline can beestablished as part of a reliable, repeatable, and robust provisioningprocess.

Each chapter has practical exercises that highlight thecapabilities of both Chef and Microsoft Azure from an automationperspective and can be executed on Windows, Mac, or Linux platforms.

In this book, youll learn:

• The purpose and principles behind automated provisioning
• Microsoft Azure concepts and management options
• How to deploy Chef Azure Virtual Machine Extensions using PowerShell, Azure command-line tools, and Chef Provisioning
• Chef Provisioning techniques, including provisioning PaaS resources such as KeyVault
Howto integrate quality tooling into the Chef development lifecycle,including Test Kitchen and InSpec with Azure compute resources
• How to set up a pipeline for contilãÙ