12. What are the main benefits of Chef?
Chef is an automation tool for keeping infrastructure as code. It has many benefits. Some of these are as follows:
I. Cloud Deployment : We can use Chef to perform automated deployment in Cloud environment.
II. Multi-cloud support : With Chef we can even use multiple cloud providers for our infrastructure.
III. Hybrid Deployment : Chef supports both Cloud based as well as datacenter-based infrastructure.
IV. High Availability : With Chef automation, we can create high availability environment. In case of hardware
failure, Chef can maintain or start new servers in automated way to maintain highly available environment.