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Infrastructure as Code Cookbook

You're reading from Infrastructure as Code Cookbook Automate complex infrastructures

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786464910

Length 440 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Terraform

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (2):

Stephane Jourdan

Pierre Pomès

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Infrastructure as Code (IAC) Cookbook

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewer

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Preface

1. Vagrant Development Environments FREE CHAPTER

2. Provisioning IaaS with Terraform

3. Going Further with Terraform

4. Automating Complete Infrastructures with Terraform

5. Provisioning the Last Mile with Cloud-Init

6. Fundamentals of Managing Servers with Chef and Puppet

7. Testing and Writing Better Infrastructure Code with Chef and Puppet

8. Maintaining Systems Using Chef and Puppet

9. Working with Docker

10. Maintaining Docker Containers

Index

Deploying Chef Client from start to finish using cloud-init

We can deploy Chef using the official omnibus installer through cloud-init. This installer embeds everything needed to deploy Chef and all its dependencies. We'll then configure the Chef client to authenticate securely against the Chef Server organization, and finally apply an initial set of cookbooks.

Note

Warning: The current cloud-init version shipped with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and CentOS 7 is having issues installing Chef. This recipe is using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS waiting for the issue to be fixed.

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, you will need the following:

Access to a cloud-config enabled infrastructure
A working Chef Server and organization setup

How to do it…

Everything related to Chef with cloud-init is configured under the directive named chef.

Deploying the Chef omnibus installer using cloud-init

As we want to use the official omnibus build (other choices are installing Chef through a Ruby gem—deprecated and too dependent on...

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Authors (2)

Stephane Jourdan

Stephane Jourdan

Stephane Jourdan is a passionate infrastructure engineer, enthusiastic entrepreneur, zealous trainer, and continuous learner, working on innovative infrastructures since the early 2000s. He focuses equally on tools and culture, in environments as different as startups, online audio/video media, e-commerce, and semi-conductors. The common point between all these experiences is that success comes with rigor, technical repeatability, communication, and a shared team culture. He co-founded an infrastructure automation consultancy (https://www.linkedin.com/company/green-alto), a web radio (http://phauneradio.com/), a container/serverless platform for developers (https://www.squarescale.com/), and a sound design studio (http://www.tarabust.com/). When Stephane isn't starting or contributing to new open source projects, he's usually found hiking in remote places with his camera.

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Pierre Pomès

Pierre Pomès

Pierre Pomès is a senior enthusiastic engineer of open source technologies and a Linux adept since 1994. He has been working in the IT industry for the last twenty years mostly in C development, system administration, and security including PCI-DSS. He is currently an architect and a DevOps team leader for Reservit, an online hotel booking engine. He has also contributed to the pfSense project.

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