Automation through Chef Opscode
This book provides an in-depth understanding of Chef (written in Ruby and Erlang) for configuration management, cloud infrastructure management, system administration, and network management. Targeted at administrators, consultants, and architects, it will show them the advanced features which are n...
| Main Author: | Sabharwal, Navin, |
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| Other Authors: | Wadhwa, Manak,, SpringerLink (Online service) |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Berkeley, CA :
Apress,
2014.
Distributed to the Book trade worldwide by Springer. |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xvii, 237 pages) : illustrations. |
| Series: |
Expert's voice in information technology.
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| Summary: |
This book provides an in-depth understanding of Chef (written in Ruby and Erlang) for configuration management, cloud infrastructure management, system administration, and network management. Targeted at administrators, consultants, and architects, it will show them the advanced features which are necessary for infrastructure automation, devops automation, and reporting. It presumes knowledge of Ruby and Erlang which are used as reference languages for creating recipes and cookbooks. The book provides step-by-step instructions on installation and configuration of Chef, usage scenarios of Chef, in infrastructure automation by providing common scenarios like virtual machine provisioning, OS configuration for Windows, Linux, and Unix, provisioning and configuration of web servers like Apache along with popular databases like MySQL. It discusses the creation of recipes and cookbooks, which help in deployment of servers and applications to any physical, virtual, or cloud location, no matter the size of the infrastructure. -- |
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| Item Description: |
Includes index. This book provides an in-depth understanding of Chef (written in Ruby and Erlang) for configuration management, cloud infrastructure management, system administration, and network management. Targeted at administrators, consultants, and architects, it will show them the advanced features which are necessary for infrastructure automation, devops automation, and reporting. It presumes knowledge of Ruby and Erlang which are used as reference languages for creating recipes and cookbooks. The book provides step-by-step instructions on installation and configuration of Chef, usage scenarios of Chef, in infrastructure automation by providing common scenarios like virtual machine provisioning, OS configuration for Windows, Linux, and Unix, provisioning and configuration of web servers like Apache along with popular databases like MySQL. It discusses the creation of recipes and cookbooks, which help in deployment of servers and applications to any physical, virtual, or cloud location, no matter the size of the infrastructure. -- Edited summary from book. |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xvii, 237 pages) : illustrations. |
| ISBN: |
9781430262961 1430262966 |