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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

Looking at an honorable mention – Linode


Here is a quick look at the Chef integration to provision to the hosting provider Linode.com. While Linode has nowhere near the market share of any of the top hosting providers we've covered so far, there is a strong user base of passionate developers (like my colleague Barry Ruffner who introduced me to Linode) and many happy companies who use the hosting service to fill their Linux-based hosts needs with distros from CentOS, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, Ubuntu, and Slackware, to name a few. And just like with the other hosting providers we discussed, you have the ability to create and manage your servers hosted there with a knife plugin, knife-linode. You can install the plugin with the now familiar Chef command:

chef gem install knife-linode

As with our other plugins, you will want to add a linode configuration parameter to your knife.rb file so you don't have to provide the parameter with each command. It will contain your API key, which can be generated...