Chapter 7. Servers and Cloud Infrastructure
"The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we've redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do." | ||
--Richard Stallman |
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Creating your infrastructure using Chef Provisioning
- Creating cookbooks from a running system with Blueprint
- Running the same command on many machines at once
- Setting up SNMP for external monitoring services
- Deploying a Nagios monitoring server
- Building high-availability services using heartbeat
- Using HAProxy to load-balance multiple web servers
- Using custom bootstrap scripts
- Managing firewalls with iptables
- Managing fail2ban to ban malicious IP addresses
- Managing Amazon EC2 instances
- Loading your Chef infrastructure ...
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