Posted by Chris Yallop in Development Environment
on Apr 15th, 2012 | 2 comments
In my job I’ve noticed that the number of web sites, applications and APIs keep growing and all need servers to run on. I’m not a Systems Administrator but being a lone developer I want to try and keep as much of my time focused on doing what I love, building great apps for people. To help combat the issue of managing multiple servers I started to experiment with Chef and I have to say, after a bit of a learning curve, I like it, or I like what it enables me to be getting on with.
Recently, I’ve been tasked with working alongside another developer and the topic of a development environment came...