What is chef-solo?
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First, what is chef?
Chef is an automation tool for systems and cloud infrastructure. It makes it easy to deploy servers and applications to virtual, physical or cloud environments. The chef-client is used to maintain servers, and cookbooks & recipes are used to tell the chef-client running on each node, the configuration it should have.
What is chef-solo?
chef-solo is designed to run in standalone mode, without a chef server, so you do not get the centralised management that comes with the full chef server product. This article does not cover installing chef-solo, but it involved installing the ruby gem called chef.
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