November 2014
Beginner
366 pages
8h 8m
English
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Glossary
- Argument
See Parameter
- Chef
a broad term for Opscode products including Chef Server (Erchef), Chef Client, Chef Solo, Hosted Chef, and Private (Enterprise) Chef; however, most commonly refers to Chef Client
- Chef Client
the agent or service that runs locally on a machine managed by Chef
- Chef Shell
formerly
shef, the Chef Shell (chef-shell) is an interactive REPL for using Chef via the command line (similar toirbin Ruby orpythonin Python)- Chef Server
the centralized store for configuration data in your infrastructure
- Chef Solo
an open source version of Chef that does not require Chef Server, but lacks some features that might be important to power users, such as search and centralized data
- Client
See Chef Client
- Convergent
See Convergence
- Convergence
a stronger version of idempotency that guarantees the command will not be executed if action is not required
See also Idempotency
- Cookbook
a single unit of configuration and policy information; an encapsulation of recipes, attributes, metadata, templates, files, and more
- Domain Specific Language
a language or syntax written to handle a specific problem domain or set of concerns
- DSL
See Domain Specific Language
- Data Bag
a JSON key-value file that is used to file global organizational data such as users or API keys
- Embedded Ruby
a Ruby templating language that lets you run Ruby and output the results; useful for configuration templates
- Encrypted Data Bag
an AES-256-CBC encrypted version of a Data ...
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