![]() ![]() Just imagine the complexity and time required in setting up and managing all those fleet of servers with the correct configuration you want. What if you have 100s or 1000s of servers to manage?. Scripts and manual methods will get the job done, if you only have to manage one or two machines. If not manual, you must be using a combination of scripts that are specific to your environment + the manual method. Be that creating a user, configuring ssh keys for a user, installing packages, upgrading or removing packages, modifying configuration files or any such operations. ie: log in to the server, and do the required configuration changes. Its very likely that if you are reading this article then you are currently managing(or is only aware of) configuration of systems in the environment by manual method. This is because chef comes under the umbrella of tools tagged as “configuration management tools”. Before getting started with Chef itself, we need to understand what is “configuration management”.
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