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Configuration Management with Chef-Solo

You're reading from   Configuration Management with Chef-Solo A comprehensive guide to get you up and running with Chef-Solo.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783982462
Length 116 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Naveed ur Rahman Naveed ur Rahman
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Berkshelf


As we noticed in the previous chapter, it is very difficult to maintain and download the recipes one by one and keep a track of them. Chef comes with the following two plugins that help us overcome this problem:

  • Librarian-Chef

  • Berkshelf

Both are tools to manage dependent cookbooks.

Librarian-Chef is used to fetch the cookbooks from the central repository and install them using Knife. It's a bundler to resolve every dependency of an application, download, and installation. Also, it has the capability to download public and community cookbooks.

Each cookbook can contain one Cheffile and all the necessary information to download the cookbooks.

The following is an example:

site "http://community.opscode.com/api/v1"
cookbook "git"
cookbook "timezone", "0.0.1"
cookbook "rvm",
  :git => "https://github.com/fnichol/chef-rvm",
  :ref => "v0.7.1"
cookbook "nginx",
  :path => "/cookbooks/nginx"

Cheffile is used to download the recipes from Git or any other source. Before the execution of...

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