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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.

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2014

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781783982462

Length 116 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Chef

Concepts

Configuration Management

Author (1):

Naveed ur Rahman

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Table of Contents (8) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to Chef and Chef-Solo FREE CHAPTER

2. Setting Up an Environment for Chef-Solo

3. Setting Up a Development Environment

4. Developing Cookbooks

5. More about Cookbooks and Recipes

6. Chef-Solo and Docker

Index

Installation on Linux and Ubuntu

Chef provides us with a number of ways to get started. We can get it working using different methods. Each method has certain advantages and disadvantages. Chef-Solo can be installed as a Ruby gem, or a Debian package and is not available as Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) packages for Red Hat based Linux.

The detailed installation methods are discussed in the following sections.

Installing Chef as a Ruby gem

Chef is written in Ruby, and before getting started with Chef-Solo, we have to install Ruby. The installation is simple enough and it requires only two packages to get started. Ruby developers may prefer this particular method to get started.

apt-get install Ruby1.9.3 Ruby1.9.3-dev build-essential

This will install Ruby Version 1.9.1 and also a few required extensions. After installation of Ruby, we can easily install Chef using it as a Ruby gem. We can install Ruby by using the following snippet:

gem1.9.3 install --no-ri --no-rdoc chef

Also, you can install...

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Authors (1)

Rahman

Rahman

Naveed ur Rahman is a self-taught programmer and an avid traveler. When he is not experimenting with the latest in programming and deployment, he is out camping and watching cricket. His adventures in programming began at a very young age when he got introduced to GW-BASIC. Now, he has experience working for one of the biggest tech names in the Middle East. Having worked at the largest technology company in the Middle East, Naveed has helped teams create and deploy applications written in various languages using configuration management tools.

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