Deploying with Chef
Chef is a Ruby-based deployment system from Opscode.
It is pretty easy to try out Chef; for fun, we can do it in a Docker container so we don't pollute our host environment with our experiments:
docker run -it ubuntu
We need the curl command to proceed with downloading the chef installer:
apt-get -y install curl curl -L https://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh | bash
The Chef installer is built with a tool from the Chef team called omnibus.
Our aim here is to try out a Chef tool called chef-solo. Verify that the tool is installed:
chef-solo -v
This will give output as:
Chef: 12.5.1
The point of chef-solo is to be able to run configuration scripts without the full infrastructure of the configuration system, such as the client/server ...
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