Chapter 8. Servers and Cloud Infrastructure
"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time."—J. Lubbock
In this chapter we will cover the following topics:
- Deploying a Nagios monitoring server
- Building high-availability services using Heartbeat
- Managing NFS servers and file shares
- Using HAProxy to load-balance multiple web servers
- Managing firewalls with iptables
- Managing EC2 instances
- Managing virtual machines with Vagrant
As powerful as Puppet is for managing the configuration of a single server, its true benefits become apparent only when controlling networks of many machines. In this chapter we'll ...
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