Meet Chef

By Joshua Sierles
Automate your server deployments with Ruby.
Course info
Rating
(160)
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Oct 5, 2012
Duration
1h 52m
Table of contents
Introduction
Introduction 8m
Web Servers
Terminology 4m Install a Virtual Machine 3m Write an Nginx Recipe 12m Run Chef 16m Use Your SSH Key 1m Setup a Local Hostname 1m Build the Rails Recipe 19m
App Servers
Deploy Rails 7m Attributes 15m Ohai Automatic Attributes 3m Roles 11m Files and Directories 4m Debugging and Distribution 7m
Description
Course info
Rating
(160)
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Oct 5, 2012
Duration
1h 52m
Description

For many years, server administration was a grueling, manual process. It was one area of computer science that hadn't caught up to the agile, iterative techniques of software development. Thanks to Chef, you can now automate your server deployments with the same confidence with which you run your unit tests. Even software developers can overcome the fear of sysadmin work! In an hour, former 37signals sysadmin Joshua Sierles takes you through the basics of building Chef recipes.

About the author
Joshua Sierles
About the author

He is a Chef contributor and evangelist, and runs Backdrop.

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