Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
IRB
See
Interactive Ruby
Knife
the command-line tool for working with Chef and your infrastructure; knife supports a
plugin model for easy customization
Metadata
additional information, such as the name, version, description, dependencies, and recom-
mendations for a given cookbook
Multi-tenancy
See
Organization
Node
any machine or device managed by Chef
Open Source Chef Server
a free and open source version of Chef Server that contains much of the same functional-
ity of Hosted Chef, but requires additional setup, maintenance, configuration, and man-
agement
Organization
a top-level grouping of nodes, policies, and users; a feature found only in Hosted Chef
and Enterprise Chef, often called “multi-tenancy”
Parameter
An object (such as a String or Array) passed as an argument to a method in Ruby or Chef
Private Chef
See
Enterprise Chef
