This document discusses Chef for OpenStack, which uses Chef to automate the deployment and management of OpenStack. It provides concise summaries of key points:
- Chef for OpenStack includes cookbooks for common OpenStack components like Keystone, Glance, Nova, and Swift that can be used to programmatically deploy and manage OpenStack infrastructure.
- The Chef community contributes to OpenStack-related cookbooks that are open source and available on GitHub, helping reduce fragmentation and encourage collaboration around automating OpenStack.
- Chef allows OpenStack infrastructures to be treated like code, with configurations version controlled and deployments that can be automatically reconstructed from backups, improving supportability and portability across environments.