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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.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Summary


In this chapter, we have discussed Chef, chef-client, and Chef-Solo. We also discussed some core concepts of Chef and had a look at different use cases. Also, we elaborated upon certain Chef terminologies such as nodes, workstations, cookbooks, recipes, resources, roles, attributes, templates, and data bags.

In the next chapter, we will discuss the cookbooks in more detail and set up a Linux machine with Chef, and will execute some open source recipes.