What is chef?
In this context the Chef is a systems integration framework, built to bring the benefits of configuration management to your entire infrastructure. With Chef, you can:
- Manage your servers by writing code, not by running commands. (via Cookbooks)
- Integrate tightly with your applications, databases, LDAP directories, and more. (via Libraries)
- Easily configure applications that require knowledge about your entire infrastructure (“What systems are running my application?” “What is the current master database server?”)
Chef’s related posts
› Bootstrap cloud instances with a Chef and Opscode
Posted on 09 Jul 2010
I was looking for cloud automation approaches and come up with some interesting pragmatic solution. If shortly, this is about provisioning Chef Client ready server on Rackspace Cloud services with a single command. We also will be using Opscode instead of our own Chef Server….