Learning Chef: A Guide to Configuration Management and by Mischa Taylor, Seth Vargo

By Mischa Taylor, Seth Vargo

Get a hands-on advent to the Chef, the configuration administration instrument for fixing operations matters in organizations huge and small. perfect for builders and sysadmins new to configuration administration, this consultant exhibits you to automate the packaging and supply of purposes on your infrastructure. You'll manage to construct (or rebuild) your infrastructure's software stack in mins or hours, instead of days or weeks.

After instructing you the way to write down Ruby-based Chef code, this booklet walks you thru varied Chef instruments and configuration administration thoughts in every one bankruptcy, utilizing designated examples all through. All you want to start is command-line event and familiarity with uncomplicated method administration.
• Configure your Chef improvement setting and begin writing recipes
• Create Chef cookbooks with recipes for every a part of your infrastructure
• Use attempt Kitchen to control sandbox trying out environments
• deal with unmarried nodes with Chef purchaser, and a number of nodes with Chef Server
• Use info luggage for storing shared worldwide information among nodes
• Simulate creation Chef Server environments with Chef Zero
• Classify sorts of companies on your infrastructure with roles
• version existence levels of your program, together with improvement, trying out, staging, and creation

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