Configuration Management with Chef-Solo

Book Description

This is a step-by-step guide, full of hands-on examples of real-world deployment tasks. Each topic is explained and placed in context, while also pointing out the key details of the concepts used. This book is aimed at system administrators and system engineers who have an understanding of configuration management tools and infrastructure. For novice administrators, it contains easy-to-use application recipes to get started immediately.

What you will learn

• Define your infrastructure as code in Chef
• Set up a testing and production environment with ChefSolo
• Test the incremental development of a project with Vagrant
• Develop recipes and manage web and database roles
• Automate tedious manual tasks
• Learn to use data bags and write clean cookbooks
• Create a Docker image using cookbooks
• Manage and scale your cloud infrastructure by automating your configuration management

Who this book is for