Chapter 9. VMware vSphere Management with Chef
You will need a machine installed with ChefDK to understand and implement the topics covered in this chapter.
In this chapter, we go beyond Chef and find the various integration points that Chef has with various VMware management layers like ESXi or vSphere vCenter. Chef offers two great points of integration to VMware: Knife and Chef provisioning.
Knife, as you learned in earlier chapters, is a command-line utility that resides on a management server/workstation. Knife can be extended beyond the ability to talk to just the Chef server (whether that Chef server is located inside your data center or, as in ...
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