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J. BartlettBuilding Scalable PHP Web Applications Using the Cloudhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5212-3_12

12. Server Management Techniques

Jonathan Bartlett1 
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Tulsa, OK, USA
 

So far, any time we have wanted to push an update to our cloud, we have had to reimage all of our servers. That isn’t terrible, but neither is it the best option. If you imagine running a server farm with 20 different servers, do you really want to go and reimage them all every time you redeploy code? Probably not. If you want to install a server patch, do you want to go and reimage all your servers? Again, probably not.

Thankfully, there are a number of tools which can aid the management of a number of machines. They all have a variety of different ...

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