Heads up: This blog belongs to our integrating Okta with popular infrastructure series. If you aren't into Chef, there are alternatives such as our Ansible, Puppet, and Terraform tutorials.
If you need to manage infrastructure at scale, Chef cookbooks are for you. However, like other configuration management tools, Chef is best when cookbooks don’t change a lot. You can accomplish this using typical server setup and configuration tasks, such as installing Nginx and tweak conf file. Once your server gets more traffic, it can become more difficult to manage the server and accounts. As people leave or join your ops team and you need to rotate server keys things can get tricky.