CHAPTER 12

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Cloud Provisioning Using Chef

Provisioning Using Vagrant and Chef

Until now we have seen how to leverage chef to provision and configure application and database environments. In this chapter we introduce our readers to how Vagrant and chef can work together to bring up complete environments including the virtual infrastructure.

Vagrant is an open source infrastructure provisioning solution that integrates with VMware, AWS, VirtualBox, and other hypervisor and cloud environments to provision virtual and cloud infrastructure.

After provisioning of the cloud or virtual infrastructure through Vagrant, chef can be used to deploy and configure ...

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