Instant Chef Starter [Instant]
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- Learn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide delivering immediate results.
- Learn the core capabilities of Chef and how it integrates with your infrastructure
- Set up your own Chef server for managing your infrastructure
- Provision new servers with ease and develop your own recipes for use with Chef
Book Details
Language : EnglisheBook : 70 pages
Release Date : February 2013
ISBN : 1782163468
ISBN 13 : 9781782163466
Author(s) : John Ewart
Topics and Technologies : All Books, Instant, Architecture & Analysis, Open Source
Table of Contents
Instant Chef Starter- Instant Chef Starter
- So, what is Chef?
- Multi-server management
- Use case – managing infrastructure for a multi-tiered application
- Concepts and terminology
- Components
- Basic terminology
- Back to the problem at hand
- Defining roles
- Defining nodes
- Defining environments
- Putting it together
- Installation
- Getting Chef installed
- Installation methods
- Installation on a Debian-based distribution
- Manual installation
- Verifying installation
- Configuring knife
- Quick start
- Getting started with using Chef
- Bootstrapping servers
- How the process works
- Examining the bootstrap script
- Performing the bootstrap
- Verifying the registration
- Downloading and installing cookbooks
- Getting cookbooks from Opscode with knife
- Installing cookbooks
- Creating roles
- Setting up roles
- Applying roles to nodes
- Viewing the run list
- Applying configurations
- Top features you need to know about
- Getting more in-depth with Chef
- Developing your own recipes and cookbooks
- Cookbook contents
- Cookbook file organization
- Recipes
- Metadata
- Attributes
- Templates
- Resources
- Writing a basic recipe
- Getting to know your knife (every chef's primary tool)
- Commands
- Bootstrapping a server
- Viewing and manipulating data
- Managing nodes and roles
- Deploying to multiple servers with a single bound!
- Advanced data configuration using data bags
- What are data bags
- Using in recipes
- People and places that you should know
- Opscode resources
- Chef wiki and documentation
- Chef source code
- Community portal
- Opscode blog
- Chef users' mailing list
- Cookbook repositories
- Vagrant
- Vagrant project
- Vagrant butcher
- Ruby resources
- Ruby quick-start tutorial
- Official Ruby documentation
- Code academy Ruby track
John Ewart
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- 1 submitted: last submission 17 May 2013Errata type: Code | Page no. 12
echo "deb 'lsb_release –cs'-0.10 main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
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- What Chef can provide you as a systems administrator
- Install your own Chef server
- Provision new servers programmatically
- Download and use existing recipes
- Build your own custom recipes
- Use data bags to describe complex infrastructure data
- Automate operations across an entire network or a subset of it
- Scale your infrastructure from a handful to hundreds of servers
As any systems administrator will tell you, managing one server can be challenging, let alone a dozen or more. With Chef, you can make managing dozens or even hundreds of servers manageable and learn how to configure and deploy new servers.
"Instant Chef Starter" is a hands-on guide to managing your infrastructure. You will learn the benefits of using Chef as well as how to install, configure, and use the set of tools provided. The book will also cover developing recipes for use with Chef to install software and maintain configurations so managing dozens of servers is no more difficult than managing one.
Learn how Chef fits into your infrastructure, install the software, build your own recipes, and provision servers with ease.
This book covers installing your own Chef server to manage your infrastructure and software configurations. Discover where you can find existing templates for managing software packages and operating systems and then learn to write your own. After you have done that, learn how to apply operations, execute scripts, and manage configurations across an entire network with only one command.
Get to grips with a new technology, understand what it is and what it can do for you, and then get to work with the most important features and tasks.This is a practical Starter guide which helps you gain the skills needed to learn Chef.
This book is aimed at developers and system administrators who are looking for ways to better manage complex infrastructures in a consistent fashion. No previous experience with Chef is assumed.
