By this point, you have seen how to manage Windows hosts, automate deployment and configuration of IIS apps, extend your infrastructure into the cloud, and test your recipes and cookbooks. From this, you can take what you have learned to begin developing advanced Windows-specific recipes and cross-platform ones that support multiple platforms, as well as test them using RSpec
and ChefSpec
. With Chef, you can easily manage your heterogeneous Windows and Linux environments, scaling your systems across physical hosts and cloud servers to meet your infrastructure's growth needs.
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