{"id":500,"date":"2011-09-09T11:26:40","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T19:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/?p=500"},"modified":"2011-10-19T15:22:41","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T23:22:41","slug":"a-visual-introduction-to-chef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/09\/a-visual-introduction-to-chef\/","title":{"rendered":"A Visual Introduction to Chef"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\" target=\"_blank\">Urbanspoon<\/a>, we&#8217;ve recently started using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opscode.com\/chef\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chef<\/a> to manage our production servers. Now that I&#8217;m familiar with it, I love its ease of use and flexibility, not to mention the time savings.<\/p>\n<p>When I was first learning Chef, though, I found the learning curve pretty steep because of all the terminology. It was hard to understand how all the components related to each other. I wasn&#8217;t able to find anything online that would have helped give me the overview I needed, so I created one myself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/visual-guide-to-chef\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-501 aligncenter\" title=\"A Visual Introduction to Chef\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/chef-thumbnail.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"187\" height=\"605\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Click image for full diagram.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Urbanspoon, we&#8217;ve recently started using Chef to manage our production servers. Now that I&#8217;m familiar with it, I love its ease of use and flexibility, not to mention the time savings. When I was first learning Chef, though, I found the learning curve pretty steep because of all the terminology. It was hard to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions\/507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}