Chef
Chef is an open source systems integration framework built to bring the benefits of configuration management to your entire infrastructure. You write source code to describe how you want each part of your infrastructure to be built, then apply those descriptions to your servers.
Features
- Configuration Management
- Virtualization
- Server Management
Tags
- System Administration
- aws
- ec2
- Ruby
- sysadmin
- perl
Chef information
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Opscode Licensing
Open Source (Apache-2.0) and Free product.Written in
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What is Chef?
Chef is an open source systems integration framework built to bring the benefits of configuration management to your entire infrastructure. You write source code to describe how you want each part of your infrastructure to be built, then apply those descriptions to your servers. The result is a fully automated infrastructure: when a new server comes on line, the only thing you have to do is tell Chef what role it should play in your architecture.
Comments and Reviews
Chef is ideal when you have to maintain a bunch of servers, not just spin them up. It takes some planning and thought, but instead you get an authoritative source of information about your infrastructure, versioned storage of configuration code and a cherry on top — Ruby-based DSL for infrastructure management.