You want to learn more about Chef? We want to teach you about Chef! How convenient!
Lets start at the top, shall we?
Getting Started
Head over to the Getting Started guide, which will walk you through Installation, creating a Chef Repository, and getting a Cookbook Quick Start at building Cookbooks.
Cooking with Chef
Once you've gotten yourself situated, it's time to go to Cooking School. In this section, we talk about Nodes, Roles, Cookbooks (and their components: Recipes, Definitions, Attributes, Libraries, Files and Templates), Resources, Providers and Search Indexes. It's where you'll learn what each piece of Chef is, and how they all fit together.
Chef Architecture
With all that under your belt, it's time to tackle the dirty secrets of what's happening behind the scenes with Chef Architecture. We'll give you the scoop on the four executable parts of Chef - Chef Server, Chef Indexer, Chef Client and Chef Solo. We close with Anatomy of a Chef Run, where we go in-depth with the process by which your systems get configured.
Chef Development
This area reflects parts of Chef that are under active development. The locations of sub-pages may change, as the documentation is also under development.
