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Getting Started Managing Your Infrastructure Using Chef

Getting Started Managing Your Infrastructure Using Chef
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Author(s)

Justin EllingwoodNik Wakelin

By Justin Ellingwood and Nik Wakelin

Introduction

Chef is a powerful configuration management system that can be used to programmatically control your infrastructure environment. Leveraging the Chef system allows you to easily recreate your environments in a predictable manner by automating the entire system configuration. In this series, we will introduce you to Chef concepts and demonstrate how to install and utilize the its powerful features to manage your servers.

Tutorials in series

Tutorial

How To Understand the Chef Configuration Environment on a VPS

  • November 21, 2013
  • 6 min read

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Tutorial

How To Set Up a Chef 12 Configuration Management System on Ubuntu 14.04 Servers

  • March 3, 2015
  • 17 min read

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Tutorial

How to Install a Chef Server, Workstation, and Client on Ubuntu VPS Instances

  • January 31, 2014
  • 12 min read

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Tutorial

How To Create Simple Chef Cookbooks to Manage Infrastructure on Ubuntu

  • February 3, 2014
  • 14 min read

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Tutorial

How To Use Roles and Environments in Chef to Control Server Configurations

  • February 4, 2014
  • 13 min read

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Tutorial

How To Use the DigitalOcean Plugin for Knife to Manage Droplets in Chef

  • February 10, 2014
  • 13 min read

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Tutorial

How To Manage Your Cluster with Chef and Knife on Ubuntu

  • October 31, 2014
  • 7 min read

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Tutorial

How To Automatically Add New Droplets to your Configuration Management System

  • February 26, 2015
  • 17 min read

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