Chapter 33. Managing Sets of Servers

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Chef

CFEngine

Landscape

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This chapter provides a quick introduction to some tools that might be useful, especially for people who manage large numbers of servers. The tools here are designed for system administrators and developers—people who are responsible for keeping more than one or two servers up and running, managing their configurations, and so on. Systems have grown to the point that managing each one individually is becoming unwieldy at times and so tools have been created that decrease some of the stress and complexity by reducing the job to managing the software that in turn manages all of the servers. Okay, any system administrator or developer ...

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