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Mayank Joshi
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Mayank Joshi

Mayank Joshi works for Indix as a DevOps engineer. He has worn many hats during his 10-year long career. He has been a developer, a systems analyst, a systems administrator, a software consultant, and for the past 6 years, he has been fascinated with the phenomenal growth witnessed in cloud environments and the challenges of automation associated with the hosting of the infrastructure in such environments. Prior to Indix, he worked for start-ups such as SlideShare, R&D organizations such as CDAC, and even had a stint at a highly automated chemical plant of IFFCO.
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Prerequisites for using Chef API


Before we start using Chef API, we need to follow a few rules:

  1. Use a Chef server running the version 11.X.

  2. The Accept header must be set to application/JSON.

  3. For the PUT and POST requests, the Content-Type header must be an application/JSON.

  4. The X-Chef-Version header should be set to the version of Chef that we are using.

  5. The request must be signed using Mixlib::Authentication. We'll see more about this later in this chapter.

  6. The request must be well formatted. You can use the Chef::REST library to ensure this or use ridley.

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Mayank Joshi works for Indix as a DevOps engineer. He has worn many hats during his 10-year long career. He has been a developer, a systems analyst, a systems administrator, a software consultant, and for the past 6 years, he has been fascinated with the phenomenal growth witnessed in cloud environments and the challenges of automation associated with the hosting of the infrastructure in such environments. Prior to Indix, he worked for start-ups such as SlideShare, R&D organizations such as CDAC, and even had a stint at a highly automated chemical plant of IFFCO.
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