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Published inFeb 2017
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Stephane Jourdan
Stephane Jourdan
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Stephane Jourdan

Stephane Jourdan is a passionate infrastructure engineer, enthusiastic entrepreneur, zealous trainer, and continuous learner, working on innovative infrastructures since the early 2000s. He focuses equally on tools and culture, in environments as different as startups, online audio/video media, e-commerce, and semi-conductors. The common point between all these experiences is that success comes with rigor, technical repeatability, communication, and a shared team culture. He co-founded an infrastructure automation consultancy (https://www.linkedin.com/company/green-alto), a web radio (http://phauneradio.com/), a container/serverless platform for developers (https://www.squarescale.com/), and a sound design studio (http://www.tarabust.com/). When Stephane isn't starting or contributing to new open source projects, he's usually found hiking in remote places with his camera.
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Pierre Pomès

Pierre Pomès is a senior enthusiastic engineer of open source technologies and a Linux adept since 1994. He has been working in the IT industry for the last twenty years mostly in C development, system administration, and security including PCI-DSS. He is currently an architect and a DevOps team leader for Reservit, an online hotel booking engine. He has also contributed to the pfSense project.
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Introduction

Chef is an open source tool used to automate the configuration of systems and it integrates well with most IaaS such as Amazon Web Services, OpenStack, or Google Cloud. Using Chef, we write infrastructure code in Ruby that describes how every aspect of the system is expected to behave according to a number of conditions, then apply it through various client tools to ensure the defined state is applied.

In this chapter, you'll discover the essentials of managing servers using Chef code with the Chef Development Kit (Chef DK). You'll learn how to bootstrap a working Chef environment on a new server, how to install packages and manage services, how easy it is to generate dynamic configurations through files and templates, create useful functional roles, centrally share data to dynamically generate content, and show how to articulate dependencies between services while helping them notify each other of their state, so the whole deployment chain works in order. We'll also have an...

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Stephane Jourdan

Stephane Jourdan is a passionate infrastructure engineer, enthusiastic entrepreneur, zealous trainer, and continuous learner, working on innovative infrastructures since the early 2000s. He focuses equally on tools and culture, in environments as different as startups, online audio/video media, e-commerce, and semi-conductors. The common point between all these experiences is that success comes with rigor, technical repeatability, communication, and a shared team culture. He co-founded an infrastructure automation consultancy (https://www.linkedin.com/company/green-alto), a web radio (http://phauneradio.com/), a container/serverless platform for developers (https://www.squarescale.com/), and a sound design studio (http://www.tarabust.com/). When Stephane isn't starting or contributing to new open source projects, he's usually found hiking in remote places with his camera.
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Pierre Pomès

Pierre Pomès is a senior enthusiastic engineer of open source technologies and a Linux adept since 1994. He has been working in the IT industry for the last twenty years mostly in C development, system administration, and security including PCI-DSS. He is currently an architect and a DevOps team leader for Reservit, an online hotel booking engine. He has also contributed to the pfSense project.
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