Chef, Part 2 of 6: Chef Client and Ohai

Chef takes the process of software deployment and converts it into code making managing your infrastructure smoother and more efficient. Cookbooks are the fundamental unit of configuration and policy distribution in Chef. This course starts with how cookbooks work and how to build one. Next, it covers how the Chef Client works. Finally, it will take a look at Ohai which is a tool that is used to collect system configuration data, which is provided to the chef-client for use within cookbooks.

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