You want to learn more about Chef? We want to teach you about Chef! How convenient!
Lets start at the top, shall we?
Quick Start
Head over to the Quick Start guide, which will walk you through the following:
It takes a few assumptions to get you up and running as quickly as possible.
Chef Basics
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, Templates and Metadata), Resources, Providers, Search and Data Bags. This is 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 executable parts of Chef - Chef Server, Chef Indexer, Chef Client, Chef Solo, Knife and Shef, and tell you all about Chef's Authentication system. We close with Anatomy of a Chef Run, where we go in-depth with the process by which your systems get configured.
