Using Chef to manage hardware-based infrastructure
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Practical experience using Chef to deploy, configure and perform release management for a medium-scale, hardware-based datacenter (1000+ physical servers). Covers managing bare-metal in environments alongside cloud and Kubernetes, estimating time and staffing for rolling releases, Chef tools for monitoring release progress (pre-/post-release), secret management and rotation, and an example metric for changing root passwords across the fleet.
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