Automation through Chef Opscode

A Hands-on Approach to Chef



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Price$52.17 - $69.93
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AuthorsNavin Sabharwal, Manak Wadhwa
PublisherApress
Published2014
Pages264
LanguageEnglish
FormatPaper book / ebook (PDF)
ISBN-101430262958
ISBN-139781430262954
EBook Hardcover Paperback

Automation through Chef Opscode provides an in-depth understanding of Chef, which is written in Ruby and Erlang for configuration management, cloud infrastructure management, system administration, and network management.

Targeted at administrators, consultants, and architect, the book guides them through the advanced features of the tool which are necessary for infrastructure automation, devops automation, and reporting. The book presumes knowledge of Ruby and Erlang which are used as reference languages for creating recipes and cookbooks and as a refresher on them to help the reader get on speed with the flow of book.

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.


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