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Managing Server Configuration with Chef

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Christopher Adamson
Nov 11, 2025
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Server configuration management is at the heart of Chef’s capabilities. Beyond automating simple tasks like installing software or creating users, Chef can configure system services, manage configuration files, and ensure your servers are always in the desired state. In this part of the tutorial, you’ll learn how to automate the management of services and configuration files. You’ll create a recipe to install and configure the NGINX web server and ensure it is running and properly set up.

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