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Configuration Management with Chef-Solo

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Product type Book

Published in Jun 2014

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781783982462

Pages 116 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Configuration Management

Author (1):

Naveed ur Rahman

Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Configuration Management with Chef-Solo

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. Introduction to Chef and Chef-Solo

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)

Naveed ur 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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