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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 (8 chapters)

Chapter 6. Chef-Solo and Docker

In the previous chapter, we successfully developed our recipes and tested them with Vagrant. Also, we executed our recipes with Chef-Solo. In this chapter, we will look at another interesting tool for deployment and execute our nginx recipe with Chef-Solo.

We will cover the following topics in this chapter:

  • Docker
  • Executing recipes with Chef-Solo on a Docker container
  • Some recommended practices for using Chef-Solo
  • Chef server and Chef infrastructure