By Navin Sabharwal, Manak Wadhwa
Automation via Chef Opscode offers an in-depth knowing of Chef, that is written in Ruby and Erlang for configuration administration, cloud infrastructure administration, method management, and community management.
Targeted at directors, specialists, and architect, the ebook courses them during the complex good points of the instrument that are precious for infrastructure automation, devops automation, and reporting. The ebook presumes wisdom of Ruby and Erlang that are used as reference languages for growing recipes and cookbooks and as a refresher on them to aid the reader get on velocity with the move of book.
The ebook offers step-by-step directions on install and configuration of Chef, utilization eventualities of Chef, in infrastructure automation via delivering universal eventualities like digital laptop provisioning, OS configuration for home windows, Linux, and Unix, provisioning and configuration of net servers like Apache in addition to well known databases like MySQL.
It additional elaborates at the construction of recipes, and cookbooks, which assist in deployment of servers and purposes to any actual, digital, or cloud place, irrespective of the dimensions of the infrastructure.
The books covers complicated positive aspects like LWRPs and Knife and likewise comprises a number of illustrative pattern cookbooks on MySQL, Apache, and CouchDB deployment utilizing a step-by-step strategy.