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Managing Windows Servers with Chef /
In Detail This book begins with an introduction to the functionality and benefits of using Chef to manage Windows systems. From there, you are shown an overview of the Chef architecture and how to prepare a Windows host so that it can be managed by Chef, followed by an example of writing code to ins...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Birmingham :
Packt Publishing,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Chef and Windows; Working with Windows; Interacting with end hosts; Bootstrapping Windows hosts; Scaling with cloud providers; Scripting with PowerShell; Integrating with Linux-based systems; Working with Windows-specific resources; Supported platforms; Summary; Chapter 2: Installing the Client
- an Overview of Chef Concepts; Getting to know Chef better; Overview of Chef's architecture; Installing the Chef client on Windows; Preparing to bootstrap Windows hosts.
- Enabling Windows Remote ManagementConfiguring firewall ports; Enabling basic authentication; Bootstrapping a Windows host; Installing via MSI; Summary; Chapter 3: Windows-specific Resources; Working with Windows-specific resources; Platforms supported by Chef; Managing roles and features; Installing roles using different mechanisms; Executing batch scripts; Running scripts at startup; Installing software packages; Manipulating printers; Managing printer ports; Managing printers; Interacting with the Windows Registry; The Chef 10.x resource; The Chef 0.11.x resource; Managing the system path.
- Scheduling tasksInteracting with Windows pagefiles; ZIP files; Rebooting Windows; Summary; Chapter 4: Provisioning an Application Stack; Examining the cookbook; Installing the cookbook; Fetching from GitHub; Examining the recipe; Installing the prerequisites; Preparing the IIS service; Fetching the application; Configuring the application; Generating an IIS pool and site; Performing the installation; Bootstrapping the host; Creating the role; Applying the role to the node; Summary; Chapter 5: Managing Cloud Services with Chef; Working with Microsoft Azure.
- Downloading the management certificateConfiguring knife for Azure; Creating a new Azure virtual machine; Bootstrapping your Azure node; Creating a reusable image; Managing Amazon EC2 instances; Installing the EC2 knife plugin; Setting up EC2 authentication; Provisioning an EC2 instance; Executing custom user scripts in EC2; Writing the user script; Providing a custom user script; Removing the Chef node; Interacting with Rackspace cloud; Provisioning a Rackspace instance; Injecting configuration into the virtual machine; Terminating the instance; Removing the Chef node; Summary.
- Chapter 6: Going Beyond the BasicsChef's declarative language; Handling multiple platforms; Declaring support in your cookbook; Multiplatform recipes; Reducing complexity; Versioning and source control; Testing recipes; RSpec and ChefSpec; Testing basics; RSpec; ChefSpec; Executing tests; Understanding failure; Expanding your tests; Summary; Index.