February 2017
Intermediate to advanced
440 pages
8h 45m
English
We've seen how to install system packages using the package resource. In this section, you'll discover how to manage system services, using a resource named service. We'll continue to build the LAMP server we started in the previous section by managing the Apache HTTP and MariaDB services right from Chef. This way we'll be able to manage any available service.
To work through this recipe, you will need the following:
The structure of the service resource is very similar to the package resource. We want to do two actions with our services: enable them at boot and ...