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Mastering Chef Provisioning

You're reading from   Mastering Chef Provisioning Render your entire infrastructure as code with Chef

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785888915
Length 262 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Earl Waud Earl Waud
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Preface 1. Setting Up a Development Environment on Your Workstation 2. Knife Tooling and Plugins FREE CHAPTER 3. Leveraging Roles, Environments, and Policies 4. Custom Resources 5. Provisioning in the Traditional Data Center 6. Provisioning in the Cloud 7. Test-Driven Development 8. Using Chef Provisioning Index

Knife to editor integration

Many of the interactive knife subcommands use an editor to create or modify the infrastructure code. The proper integration of your favorite editor is important to a fluid knife experience.

Using the "wait" option

The key to successfully using your editor with knife is to configure it to use the editor's "wait" option. The wait option tells your editor to launch, open the specified file or content, but not return or exit from the launch command until the editor is exited.

In your standard modern OS, launching most applications from the command line will invoke the application and then immediately return control to the command-line shell. The command, in this case, invokes the editor; actually, it executes completely by launching the editor. This is the behavior that needs to be avoided when using the knife commands. Depending on the editor of choice and OS, we may need to configure the "invoke the editor" command so that it does...

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Mastering Chef Provisioning
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Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781785888915
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