Chef Essentials

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If you have some understanding of IT infrastructure principles and are ready to find out what Chef is all about, then this guide will show you all you need to know. In order to get the most out of this book, some experience of programming or scripting languages would be useful.

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Full title :Chef Essentials.

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Publication Date:2014.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Packt Publishing
Place of Publication:Birmingham
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014.

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Description:1 online resource (218 pages)

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ISBN:1783983043, 9781783983049, 9781783983056, 1783983051
oclc:ocn994403513
LC Classification:QA76.76 .O63
Dewey Decimal:004.36

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Installing Chef; Terminology; Working with Chef; Installing chef-solo; The Ruby gem; Managing gems; Verifying that chef-solo works; Installing a Chef server; Requirements and recent changes; Installation requirements; What you will be installing; Getting the installer; Installation outline; Installing on Ubuntu; Downloading the package; Installing the package; Installing on Red Hat Enterprise Linux; Downloading the package; Configuring a Chef server.

Understanding how chef-server-ctl worksWhat''s happening on my server?; Verifying that the services are running; Validating that your service is working; Ensuring that your knife configuration works; Summary; Chapter 2: Modeling Your Infrastructure; Getting to know Chef; Modeling your infrastructure; Roles; Defining roles; Implementing a role; Determining which recipes you need; Installing a cookbook; Applying recipes to roles; Mapping your roles to nodes; Converging a node; Environments; Organizing your configuration data; Example attribute data; Data bags; Knowing when to use data bags.

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