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Mastering Chef Provisioning

By : Earl Waud
Book Image

Mastering Chef Provisioning

By: Earl Waud

Overview of this book

This book will show you the best practices to describe your entire infrastructure as code. With the help of this book you can expand your knowledge of Chef because and implement robust and scalable automation solutions. You can automate and document every aspect of your network, from the hardware to software, middleware, and all your containers. You will become familiar with the Chef’s Chef Provisioning tool. You will be able to make a perfect model system where everything is represented as code beneath your fingertips. Make the best possible use of your resources, and deliver infrastructure as code, making it as versionable, testable and repeatable as application software
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Mastering Chef Provisioning
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Provisioning Microsoft Azure instances


Now that we have a solid understanding of using Chef to turn our EC2 cloud infrastructure into code, it is easy to deploy and manage. Let's see how we can do that using Microsoft's cloud hosting provider service, Azure. As I mentioned earlier in the chapter, Azure is the fastest growing cloud provider, currently with about 12 percent of the cloud hosting market. As with Amazon, Microsoft offers a free trial of the service, so you can test out how things work for you with a real-life proof of concept.

At the time of writing this chapter, Microsoft Azure has multiple personalities. By this, I mean that Microsoft has created a newer fresh version of their Azure user interface, that is, Portal. Portal has a new domain name and a new cleaner, customizable UI. Along with this new UI, there is a new deployment model named Resource Manager. You may see this referred to as Azure Resource Manager. The older UI and deployment model, Azure Service Management, is...