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Infrastructure as Code Cookbook
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Infrastructure as Code Cookbook

by Stephane Jourdan, Pierre Pomès
February 2017
Intermediate to advanced
440 pages
8h 45m
English
Packt Publishing
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Managing services

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.

Getting ready

To work through this recipe, you will need the following:

  • A working Chef DK installation on the workstation
  • A working Chef client configuration on the remote host
  • The Chef code from the previous recipe

How to do it…

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 ...

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ISBN: 9781786464910