Cloud Computing and Configuration Management

"Change is hard because people overestimate the value of what they have and underestimate the value of what they may gain by giving that up."
– James Belasco and Ralph Stayer

In the previous chapter, we have seen an overview of Docker containers. In this chapter, we will focus on creating and configuring the environment for application deployment in the cloud. We will use Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and the configuration management tool, Chef, to create a platform so that we can deploy an application in the later part using automation.

Chef is a configuration management tool that can be utilized to create a runtime...