When managing Windows with Chef, there are some Windows-specific resources that are available to you as part of the Windows stack. This chapter covers those resources that are specific to Windows such as the Windows Registry, roles, MSIs, and so on; the ones that won't be available on Linux systems.
Managing Windows Servers with Chef
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Managing Windows Servers with Chef
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Overview of this book
<p>This book begins with an introduction to the functionality and benefits of using Chef to manage Windows systems. From there, you are shown an overview of the Chef architecture and how to prepare a Windows host so that it can be managed by Chef, followed by an example of writing code to install a popular .NET application with Chef.<br /><br />This book looks at how Windows system administrators can effectively leverage Chef as an automated system management tool to simplify their lives through managed infrastructure. Included are practical examples that will help you to understand how to take advantage of Chef when managing your infrastructure.<br /><br />By the end of the book, you will be able to deploy software, provision hosts (including cloud servers), develop and test recipes for multiple platforms, and manage Windows hosts using the powerful tools that Chef provides.</p>
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Managing Windows Servers with Chef
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
Chef and Windows
Installing the Client – an Overview of Chef Concepts
Windows-specific Resources
Provisioning an Application Stack
Managing Cloud Services with Chef
Going Beyond the Basics
Index
Customer Reviews