On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Dhana Sekar <[email protected]> wrote: > Tool of the Day: chef > > Chef is a configuration management tool written in Ruby. It uses > a pure-Ruby, domain-specific language (DSL) for writing system > configuration "recipes" or "cookbooks". > > Chef was written by Opscode and is released as open source under > the Apache License 2.0. Chef is a DevOps tool used for configuring > cloud services or to streamline the task of configuring a company's > internal servers. Chef automatically sets up and tweaks theoperating > systems and programs that run in massive data centers. > > Chef can run using a client/server model, or on a consolidated > configuration > named "chef-solo". Chef can be integrated with Cloud-based platforms such > as Rackspace and Amazon EC2. Traditionally, Chef is used to manage Linux > but later versions support running on Windows as well. > > current version: 10.16.2 > Home page: www.opscode.com/chef/ >
A small suggestion. Sometimes it becomes difficult even for experienced users to search which distributions provides these as binary packages in their repositories. So, simply do a package query in pkgs.org website and it lists the package names alongwith the additional informations like, which distributions provides these packages. You can paste the link below the Homepage. It will be helpful for the users who may need the binary package for their respective distribution. http://pkgs.org/search/?keyword=chef S. Baskar CCSO/LinuXpert Systems _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
