Configuration Management

How to Install a Chef Server, Workstation, and Client on Ubuntu VPS Instances — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install a Chef Server, Workstation, and Client on Ubuntu VPS Instances

In this guide, we will work to install one Chef server used to store configuration data and administer access rights. This will serve as a hub for our other machines. We will also install a workstation that will allow us to interact with our server and build our configuration policies. This is where we will do the work to manage our infrastructure environment. Finally, we will bootstrap a node, which will represent one of the servers in our organization that will be managed through Chef.

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5 Ways to Improve your Production Web Application Server Setup — step-by-step Devops tutorial on Progressive Robot

5 Ways to Improve your Production Web Application Server Setup

Once your application is up and running in a cloud server environment, you may be wondering how you can improve your server environment to make the leap from “it works” to a full-fledged production environment. This article will help you get started with planning and implementing a production environment by creating a loose definition of “production”, and by showing you some components that you can add to your existing architecture to make the transition.

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How To Manage Your Cluster with Chef and Knife on Ubuntu — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Manage Your Cluster with Chef and Knife on Ubuntu

`knife` is a command line tool packaged with Chef. You’ve likely already used knife to create and manage Chef cookbooks, data bags, or roles. This guide will introduce you to some new knife subcommands for issuing commands and getting information about your Chef cluster.

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Automating Server Setup with Ansible: Набор материалов для тренинга the cloud provider — step-by-step Devops tutorial on Progressive Robot

Automating Server Setup with Ansible: Набор материалов для тренинга the cloud provider

<$>[note​​​] [label Материалы для проведения тренинга по автоматизации настройки сервера с помощью Ansible] Данный набор материалов для тренинга предназначен для ознакомления технических специалистов с понятиями управления конфигурацией и использованием Ansible для автоматизации настройки…

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Navigator's Guide: Modular Infrastructure Configuration — step-by-step Devops tutorial on Progressive Robot

Navigator’s Guide: Modular Infrastructure Configuration

The previous section used Terraform and Ansible to provision resources (Droplets, Load Balancers, and Floating IPs) and deploy your WordPress application. In this supplemental section, we discuss some ways to simplify this configuration using Terraform modules and separate infrastructure environments. There’s no code to execute and no changes to make in this section, but the concepts are important when building a real-world setup.

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