Working with Chef

Chef is an open source DevOps solution for infrastructure automation and configuration management from Chef Software, Inc. You can use Chef to configure a virtual machine; starting necessary system services, and installing and configuring middleware and applications. Cloud Pak System connects to an external Chef server through a shared service and provides a Chef software component that you can add to a pattern to install and configure the Chef client.

There are four steps to use Chef with a pattern in Cloud Pak System:
  1. Deploy the Chef shared service.
  2. Upload the Chef client installation files.
  3. Add the Chef client software component to the pattern.
  4. Deploy the pattern.