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Implementing Modern DevOps

You're reading from   Implementing Modern DevOps Enabling IT organizations to deliver faster and smarter

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786466877
Length 326 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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David Gonzalez David Gonzalez
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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...

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