Our objective is to install application packages to provide the runtime environment for our Java-based Petclinic application. In the traditional environment, we raise the acquisition request for the physical server and then the infrastructure team helps us to install different software on it to provide the runtime environment for our application. With Chef, we can install these packages using community cookbooks and hence we can automate it easily.
In this section, we will use cloud resources. Amazon EC2 and Microsoft Azure are two very popular public cloud resource providers. We will create virtual machines in the cloud environment and then install different application packages using the Chef configuration management tool:
- First, we will provision virtual machines in Amazon EC2 and Microsoft Azure using knife plugins using a Chef workstation...
