Configuration Management with Chef-Solo by Rahman, Naveed Ur -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Configuration Management with Chef-Solo

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Preface

What this book covers What you need for this book Who this book is for Conventions Reader feedback Customer support

Downloading the example code Errata Piracy Questions

1. Introduction to Chef and Chef-Solo

Getting started with Chef Understanding Chef-Solo Terminologies

List of terminologies

Node Workstation Cookbooks Recipes Resources Roles Attributes Templates Data bags

Different use cases

PHP WordPress Python/Django application

An overview of Chef Summary

2. Setting Up an Environment for Chef-Solo

Installation on Linux and Ubuntu

Installing Chef as a Ruby gem Installing Chef as a package manager Using the Omnibus installer

Prerequisites of Chef-Solo Cookbooks

The folder structure

Attributes Files Recipes Templates

Downloading recipes Chef-Solo configuration

Execution of recipes

Summary

3. Setting Up a Development Environment

Introducing virtual machine

System virtual machines Process virtual machines

Executing recipes with Vagrant

Provision

Creating a Hello World recipe Summary

4. Developing Cookbooks

Exploring Knife Developing recipes and cookbooks Berkshelf

The installation of Berkshelf The creation of a Berksfile

Understanding recipes Resources Attributes Metadata Summary

5. More about Cookbooks and Recipes

Using files Exploring templates Data bags Roles Restarting services and server handling Summary

6. Chef-Solo and Docker

Docker Installing Docker The working of Docker Dockerfiles Recommended ways to use Chef-Solo Chef server

Web UI Erchef Message queues

Summary

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