You've heard of Chef, Puppet, and other frameworks that can help you build out your infrastructure. You've been meaning to play around with one or more of them for some time now. Now's your chance; Start cooking up on your own servers!

In this tutorial, we'll provide an introduction to Chef with a focus on what you'll need to know to get a Drupal application up and running.

Topics include:

* Introduction to Chef
* Nodes, roles, environments, and other terminology
* Anatomy of a Chef run
* Introduction to cookbooks
* Provisioning an environment for a Drupal application
* Hands-on demo that will include provisioning servers for a Drupal application

You won't be ready to compete in Iron Chef, but you will be ready to serve up your own Drupal environment in no time.