October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
326 pages
7h 20m
English
Content preview from Implementing Modern DevOps
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Chef
Chef is a very interesting software that follows the bastion host principle to run configurations on our servers. A bastion host is a server placed in our private network that is able to reach our servers directly or via proxy in order to execute the actions needed to set them up with the desired state. This is an option not to be overlooked, as one of the biggest challenges that server provisioning presents is the management of secrets and authorization that, for example, Ansible needs to improve via third-party software such as Ansible Tower from Red Hat.
Chef uses recipes to configure parts of the server. A recipe is basically a set of declarative instructions that define what needs to happen in order to get the server to the desired ...