Chef
The Definitive Guide
Book
Paperback/Softback
400 pages
978-1-4493-2744-6 (ISBN)
Description
Increasingly, a knowledge and understanding of configuration management systems is a must for 21st century web operations professionals. In this guide, Stephen Nelson-Smith covers the entire framework in exhaustive detail, showing you how this open source tool and framework provides system administrators and developers with a foundation of APIs and libraries with which to build tools for managing infrastructure at scale. This book is the comprehensive, authoritative reference work on Chef that thousands of companies - from startups to large enterprises - have been waiting for.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Sebastopol
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 178 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-4493-2744-6 (9781449327446)
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Stephen Nelson-Smith (@LordCope) is principal consultant at Atalanta Systems, a fast-growing agile infrastructure consultancy, and Opscode training and solutions partner in Europe. One of the foundational members of the emerging Devops movement, he has been implementing configuration management and automation systems for five years for clients ranging from Sony, the UK government and Mercado Libre to startups amongst the burgeoning London 'Silicon Roundabout' community. A UNIX sysadmin, Ruby and Python programmer, and lean and agile practitioner, his professional passion is ensuring operations teams deliver value to the business. He is the author of the popular blog http://agilesysadmin.net, and lives in Hampshire, UK, where he enjoys outdoor pursuits, his family, reading, and opera.