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In my pursuit to help people about DevOps terminologies here are the definitions of Chef, Puppet, Vagrant, and Docker. There are so many others out there. This is my attempt. Chef : Chef is an automation platform to transform your infrastructure into code. It is also called, Configuration Management Software. You can define the state with different parameters as your config files, s/w, tools, access types and resource types, etc. Also, you can configure different machines with different functionality based on your need. Puppet : Puppet is a tool that allows you to abstract specific concepts of the target machine and make the configuration process more operating system agnostic. It allows to install a package or run a background service on startup independently. Define a command, packages those need to installed, step dependencies, file content, and other things you would need to get machine up and running without problems. Vagrant : Vagrant is a project that

Infrastructure as Code Picking up my blogs after a very long time, let’s see how long I last this time. So I decided to write something about a topic which I am hearing a lot, seems like it’s a buzz word these days. “Infrastructure as Code” Infrastructure as Code/Infrastructure automation is the process of scripting environments, from installing an operating system, to installing and configuring servers on instances, to configuring how the instances and software communicate with one another, and much more. By scripting environments, you can apply the same configuration to a single node or to thousands. Infrastructure automation brings agility to both development and operations because any authorized team member can modify the scripts while applying good development practices ·        Such as automated testing and versioning to your infrastructure. Developers can learn a lot from operations, and operations can learn a lot from developers. There are many open so