In the preferred Chef client/server mode, we need a Chef server to centralize all the information and action. We can build our own, either for testing purposes or for production use (with the maintenance overhead that goes with it), or we can use Hosted Chef, the Chef server hosted by the company who wrote Chef. You'll learn here how to create a free Hosted Chef account, so we can start coding with Chef as soon as possible and not worry about the server part. After this first step, we'll download the Chef Start Kit, an archive containing a fully working Chef repository, with a sample role and cookbook we can use right away—and that's what we'll do by sending this sample cookbook to the server using our first knife
command.
Infrastructure as Code (IAC) Cookbook
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Infrastructure as Code (IAC) Cookbook
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Overview of this book
Para 1: Infrastructure as code is transforming the way we solve infrastructural challenges. This book will show you how to make managing servers in the cloud faster, easier and more effective than ever before. With over 90 practical recipes for success, make the very most out of IAC.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Infrastructure as Code (IAC) Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Free Chapter
Vagrant Development Environments
Provisioning IaaS with Terraform
Going Further with Terraform
Automating Complete Infrastructures with Terraform
Provisioning the Last Mile with Cloud-Init
Fundamentals of Managing Servers with Chef and Puppet
Testing and Writing Better Infrastructure Code with Chef and Puppet
Maintaining Systems Using Chef and Puppet
Working with Docker
Maintaining Docker Containers
Index
Customer Reviews