Chapter 7. Applications
"The best software in the world only sucks. The worst software is significantly worse than that."—Luke Kanies
In this chapter we will cover the following topics:
- Managing Apache servers
- Creating Apache virtual hosts
- Creating Nginx virtual hosts
- Creating MySQL databases and users
- Managing Drupal sites
- Managing Rails applications
Without applications, a server is just a very expensive space heater. This chapter will present some recipes for managing some specific applications with Puppet: MySQL, Apache, Nginx, Rails, and Drupal. These are very popular applications, so they should be useful to you in themselves. However, the patterns and techniques they use are applicable to almost any software, so you can adapt them to your own purposes ...
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