How to build Red Hat Enterprise Linux packages with Chef.

What are Red Hat Enterprise Linux packages?

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a platform where you can enhance both security and performance of your infrastructure. Whether it’s for your private cloud, your hybrid cloud or standalone physical servers, Red Hat Enterprise Linux can help you build a more secure, lower-cost business. Red Hat Enterprise Linux comes with the most comprehensive support in the industry, helping you plan for your IT needs well into the future.

What is Chef?

Chef is an open source configuration management tool designed to help you manage infrastructure by using a model-driven, data-driven approach. Power your deployment with innovative global search and scripting capabilities, and make sure tools integrate seamlessly through a well-documented API. Chef is collaborative, ensuring that you can work most efficiently with developers, DevOps teams and operations professionals.

Building Red Hat Enterprise Linux package with Chef via packagecloud

If you’re looking to build Red Hat Enterprise Linux package with Chef, you can use packagecloud to handle all of your package management and integrations with your CI/CD tools. Packagecloud works with all kinds of packages, not only Red Hat Enterprise Linux packages. As well, you can integrate with all kinds of CI/CD tools, not only Chef.