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Chef Cookbook

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Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786465351

Length 268 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

Ruby

Tools

Chef

Concepts

Configuration Management

Author (1):

Matthias Marschall

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Table of Contents (9) Chapters

Preface

1. Chef Infrastructure FREE CHAPTER

2. Evaluating and Troubleshooting Cookbooks and Chef Runs

3. Chef Language and Style

4. Writing Better Cookbooks

5. Working with Files and Packages

6. Users and Applications

7. Servers and Cloud Infrastructure

Index

Managing Amazon EC2 instances

Amazon Web Services (AWS) includes the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), where you can start virtual machines running in the Cloud. In this section, we will use Chef to start a new EC2 instance and bootstrap the Chef client on it.

Getting ready

Make sure that you have an account at AWS.

To be able to manage EC2 instances with knife, you need security credentials. It's a good idea to create a new user in the AWS Management Console using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) as shown in the following document: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_users_create.html

Tip

Note down your new user's AWS Access Key ID and AWS Secret Access Key.

Additionally, you will need to create a SSH key pair and download the private key to enable knife to access your node via SSH.

To create a key pair, log in to the AWS Console and navigate to EC2 service (https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home). Then, choose Key Pairs under the Network & Security section in the...

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Authors (1)

Marschall

Marschall

Matthias Marschall is a Software Engineer "made in Germany". His four children make sure that he feels comfortable in lively environments, and stays in control of chaotic situations. A lean and agile engineering lead, he's passionate about continuous delivery, infrastructure automation, and all things DevOps. In recent years, Matthias has helped build several web-based businesses, first with Java and then with Ruby on Rails. He quickly grew into system administration, writing his own configuration management tool before migrating his whole infrastructure to Chef in its early days. In 2008, he started a blog (http://www.agileweboperations.com) together with Dan Ackerson. There, they have shared their ideas about DevOps since the early days of the continually emerging movement. You can find him on Twitter as @mmarschall. Matthias holds a Master's degree in Computer Science (Dipl.-Inf. (FH)) and teaches courses on Agile Software Development at the University of Augsburg. When not writing or coding, Matthias enjoys drawing cartoons and playing Go. He lives near Munich, Germany.

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