Infrastructure as Code: An Introduction to Chef
Craig Tataryn discusses the basics of Chef, what its various components are used for, and demonstrates how Chef _recipe_ and _resource_ development is implemented.

Hello Ansible: A Story about Infrastructure Agility
Baraa Basata introduces Ansible, comparing it with Chef and Capistrano and exploring automation principles: disposable servers, package management, and applying design principles to infrastructure.

Cooking on Gas: How to Use Chef to Get a Better Cloud Deal
Stephen Nelson-Smith discusses the idea of financial intermediation in cloud computing and explores how to use the Chef cloud automation framework to make it easy to move between cloud providers.
Infrastructure as Code
Gareth Rushgrove offers advice, code samples, and introduces tools - Puppet, Chef and CloudFormation – helpful for automating every infrastructure operations.
Chef in the Cloud and On the Ground
Michael T. Nygard discusses using Chef in the datacenter and in the cloud for managing physical and virtual systems.