Chapter 6. Cloud Provisioning and Configuration Management with Chef

	"You may delay, but time will not."
	-- Benjamin Franklin

Let's revisit what we have covered till now and what our goal was in the first chapter. Our main objective is to create an end-to-end automated pipeline for application deployment. We considered source code repositories, build tools, continuous integration, configuration management to setup runtime environment, resource provisioning in the cloud and containers, continuous delivery, continuous deployment, continuous monitoring, continuous feedback, continuous improvement, and continuous innovation. We want to use an end-to-end pipeline for our sample Spring application, PetClinic. In Chapter 4 , Installing and Configuring Chef and Chapter 5 , Installing and Configuring Docker, we covered the configuration management tool Chef and Docker containers in brief. Both could be topics for book on their own. Now we are at the...