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In this article, we will discuss the basics of creating a Chef cookbook. Cookbooks are the configuration units that allow us to configure and perform specific tasks within Chef on our remote nodes. We will build cookb...
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Justin Ellingwood
Configuration Management
Chef
Nginx
Ubuntu
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In this guide, we will work to install one Chef server used to store configuration data and administer access rights. This will serve as a hub for our other machines. We will also install a workstation that will allow...
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Justin Ellingwood
Chef
Configuration Management
Git
Ubuntu
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As your infrastructure requirements expand, managing each server by hand becomes an increasingly difficult task. This difficulty is compounded by the requirement for reproducibility, which becomes necessary if a node ...
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Justin Ellingwood
Configuration Management
Chef
Ubuntu
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This tutorial will walk you through the process of automating server provisioning using Chef, a powerful configuration management tool that leverages the Ruby programming language to automate infrastructure administra...
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Erika Heidi
Configuration Management
Chef
Getting Started
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In previous guides, we discussed Chef terminology, how to install a Chef server, workstation, and node (with Chef 12 or Chef 11), and how to create simple cookbooks to manage configuration. In this guide, we will cont...
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Justin Ellingwood
Chef
Configuration Management
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Tutorial series
Configuration management can drastically improve the integrity of servers over time by providing a framework for automating processes and keeping track of changes made to the system environment. This series will intro...
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Erika Heidi
Configuration Management
Getting Started
Conceptual
Ansible
Automated Setups
Chef
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Chef is a popular configuration management system that allows you to deploy predictable, complex environments to machines within your organization. In this article, we will discuss the Chef configuration environment a...
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Justin Ellingwood
Configuration Management
Chef
Ruby
Conceptual
Scaling
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Tutorial series
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 predict...
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Justin Ellingwood and Nik Wakelin
Configuration Management
Chef
Ruby
Conceptual
Scaling
Ubuntu
Git
Nginx
DigitalOcean
API
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In this guide, we will demonstrate how to bootstrap a DigitalOcean server using the metadata service and CloudInit to connect to an existing configuration management deployment. The actual configuration of the server ...
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Justin Ellingwood
API
Chef
Configuration Management
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knife is a command line tool packaged with Chef. You've likely already used knife to create and manage Chef cookbooks, data bags, or roles. This guide will introduce you to some new knife subcommands for issuing comma...
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Nik Wakelin
Chef
Configuration Management
DigitalOcean
Ubuntu
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Tutorial
Chef is an open-source Ruby based tool & framework that enables you to highly automate your server management, as well as quickly deploy preconfigured VPS without requiring you to remember exactly how you should confi...
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Roger Waldron
Chef
Ruby
Ubuntu
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In this article, we will discuss how to use a plugin for knife, the Chef configuration tool, to work with your DigitalOcean droplets. Using this tool, we can create infrastructure droplets and configure them easily fr...
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Justin Ellingwood
Chef
DigitalOcean
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Question
TLDR; I want to manage and configure multiple LEMP stacks with Terraform and Chef/Ansible to host WordPress sites without losing the data when a droplet is destroyed.
Here are the questions that I am looking to have a...
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Hello friend!
That sounds like a lot of fun any way you spin it. I'm going to do my best to provide answers to what I can, and hope that others feel...
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KnowIsPow
WordPress
Nginx
Chef
Terraform
Docker
MySQL
Block Storage
Ubuntu
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Question
Hello,
I am making an eCommerce solution utilising django and docker. I want to know the best routes to best utilise docker with digitalocean and how to avoid all draw backs. I want to make a complete workflow based o...
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throwaway
Docker
Django
Python
Kubernetes
CI/CD
API
Ansible
Chef
Ubuntu 16.04
Ubuntu
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Question
Hello Community,
My very first post here - my first foray into Chef.
I have been using the following document: Automating Azure virtual machine deployment with Chef
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-mach...
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cpatte7372
Chef
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Question
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We mistakenly attached the wrong card. Please unsubscribe card so that we can make a payment (Unpin the card from our account). Why do we invoices in the invoice VAT? We are not t...
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a69eb50ee62519a
DigitalOcean
Backups
Chef
Miscellaneous
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Question
what is cookbook? Meaning of 1 default recipe? How to create a recipe in CentOs or in Ubuntu?
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hrish
Chef
Deployment
CentOS
Ubuntu
Ubuntu 16.04
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Question
Hi,
Can I create custom OS Template / Image on Digital Ocean where it should have pre-installed some packages on my need. ie; A OS Template with already installed OpenVPN. So I just create a new droplet with my custom...
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skumar
VPN
Chef
CentOS
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Question
Hey...
Its my first time using chef. so i followed step by step too install it using this tutorial.
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-a-chef-12-configuration-management-system-on-ubuntu-14...
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xperience02
Chef
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Question
Hi All ,
i have a chef server running with a few nodes registered on it . At the moment i have just ONE workstation managing and controlling the nodes with cookbooks written in my chef-repo dir.
I have two orther eng...
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phelun
Chef
Ruby
Git