Configuration Management with Chef-Solo

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Название:Configuration Management with Chef-Solo

Автор:Naveed ur Rahman

Издательство: PASKT

Год: 2014

Страниц: 116

Язык: English

Формат: epub+code

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A comprehensive guide to get you up and running with Chef-Solo

About This Book

Explore various techniques that will help you save time in Infrastructure management

Use the power of Chef-Solo to run your servers and configure and deploy applications in an automated manner

This book will help you to understand the need for the configuration management tool and provides you with a step-by-step guide to maintain your existing infrastructure

Who This Book Is For

This book is aimed at system administrators and system engineers who have an understanding of configuration management tools and infrastructure. For novice administrators, it contains easy-to-use application recipes to get started immediately.

Table of Contents

1: Introduction to Chef and Chef-Solo

2: Setting Up an Environment for Chef-Solo

3: Setting Up a Development Environment

4: Developing Cookbooks

5: More about Cookbooks and Recipes

6: Chef-Solo and Docker

What You Will Learn

Define your infrastructure as code in Chef

Set up a testing and production environment with Chef-Solo

Test the incremental development of a project with Vagrant

Develop recipes and manage web and database roles

Automate tedious manual tasks

Learn to use data bags and write clean cookbooks

Create a Docker image using cookbooks

Manage and scale your cloud infrastructure by automating your configuration management

In Detail

Chef is a configuration management tool used to handle the hardest part of infrastructure, easing the deployment of servers and applications to any infrastructure. Chef-Solo is an open source version of the chef-client that allows you to use cookbooks with nodes, without requiring access to a Chef server. In any infrastructure, managing servers is one of the most critical tasks for any server administration. Chef-Solo makes the process of booting and provisioning many machines at the same time much easier.

Configuration Management with Chef-Solo will take you through the workflow of managing one or more servers. It includes many sample recipes to start with, and gradually you will take a look at the different interaction points and will also learn how Chef-Solo helps minimize your efforts to build and manage different machines. You will learn how to run servers while executing Ruby code. This hands-on guide will help you to understand the importance of this amazing configuration management tool.

Authors

Naveed ur Rahman

Naveed ur Rahman is a self-taught programmer and an avid traveler. When he is not experimenting with the latest in programming and deployment, he is out camping and watching cricket.

His adventures in programming began at a very young age when he got introduced to GW-BASIC. Now, he has experience working for one of the biggest tech names in the Middle East.

Having worked at the largest technology company in the Middle East, Naveed has helped teams create and deploy applications written in various languages using configuration management tools.

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