Server provision software
As mentioned earlier, there are few options for software provisioning. Through this chapter, you will learn how to use Chef and Ansible, focusing on the latter as it is widely used across many companies and is easier to master than Chef.
There are also other options in the market that are valid and good solutions, but we are going to take a special interest in Ansible, which, to me, seems the easiest to learn and extend out of all of them.
Chef
Chef is a very interesting software that follows the bastion host principle to run configurations on our servers. A bastion host is a server placed in our private network that is able to reach our servers directly or via proxy in order to execute the actions needed to set them up with the desired state. This is an option not to be overlooked, as one of the biggest challenges that server provisioning presents is the management of secrets and authorization that, for example, Ansible needs to improve via third-party software such...
