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Mastering Chef Provisioning

By : Earl Waud
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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

Summary


In this chapter, you learned how to turn our cloud-based servers (and containers) into code, so they can benefit from all the methodologies we are used to using for our application projects. We solidified our knowledge of using Amazon AWS EC2 instances. You learned how to leverage the next big players in the cloud provider arena, Microsoft and Google. We took a brief look at provisioning hosts on Linode.com, and you learned how to use Chef to provision our containers in Docker. Adding all this new cloud knowledge to what you learned about doing the same things in our traditional data center, we are now armed with the skills to easily create a hybrid hosting solution that lets us target our deployments in-house or in the cloud and lets us burst from one to the other depending on the needs of our business. With so many options available to provision our workloads, let's take a quick look at making sure that those workloads are as error free as possible by examining test-driven development...