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Configuration Management with Chef-Solo

By : Rahman
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Configuration Management with Chef-Solo

By: Rahman

Overview of this book

This is a step-by-step guide, full of hands-on examples of real-world deployment tasks. Each topic is explained and placed in context, while also pointing out the key details of the concepts used. 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.

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Configuration Management with Chef-Solo
Rahman
Jun, 2014 | 116 pages
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Table of Contents (8 chapters)
Preface
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Free Chapter
1
1. Introduction to Chef and Chef-Solo
1. Introduction to Chef and Chef-Solo
Getting started with Chef
Understanding Chef-Solo
Terminologies
Different use cases
An overview of Chef
Summary
2
2. Setting Up an Environment for Chef-Solo
2. Setting Up an Environment for Chef-Solo
Installation on Linux and Ubuntu
Prerequisites of Chef-Solo
Cookbooks
Downloading recipes
Chef-Solo configuration
Summary
3
3. Setting Up a Development Environment
3. Setting Up a Development Environment
Introducing virtual machine
Executing recipes with Vagrant
Creating a Hello World recipe
Summary
4
4. Developing Cookbooks
4. Developing Cookbooks
Exploring Knife
Developing recipes and cookbooks
Berkshelf
Understanding recipes
Resources
Attributes
Metadata
Summary
5
5. More about Cookbooks and Recipes
5. More about Cookbooks and Recipes
Using files
Exploring templates
Data bags
Roles
Restarting services and server handling
Summary
6
6. Chef-Solo and Docker
6. Chef-Solo and Docker
Docker
Installing Docker
The working of Docker
Dockerfiles
Recommended ways to use Chef-Solo
Chef server
Summary
7
Index
Index

Chapter 1. Introduction to Chef and Chef-Solo

Chef is a configuration management system to automate the process of deploying servers to any physical, virtual, or cloud location. Each setup involves the basic structure with one Chef server and different nodes managed by the chef-client. Chef infrastructure is managed by Ruby code and it allows you to test, build, and replicate your infrastructure.

This chapter will guide you through the basics of Chef and how it can help you in building an infrastructure. We will discuss Chef, Chef-Solo, and address some common problems in building an infrastructure and how Chef can help us to solve these problems.

We will cover the following topics in this chapter:

  • Chef explanations and concepts
  • Chef-Solo
  • Terminology for Chef
  • Different use cases
  • Concepts
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