Liberty profile and Chef
Chef software is an open source configuration management tool we can leverage to create and manage the installation of an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). We can use Chef to provision a Liberty profile installation.
Chef uses cookbooks, which are reusable sets of components that are written in the Ruby programming language. A cookbook provides all the necessary components needed to configure an associated piece of software, for example, Apache HTTP Server. An important distinction between using Chef and writing scripts is the ability of Chef to determine the differences between the current software configuration and a new configuration and make only the changes necessary to move from one to the other.
See the online Chef documentation About Cookbooks.
By using Chef, we can create scalable infrastructure with minimal configuration to maintain. We can expand the existing infrastructure, for example, by creating and starting a new application server or web server. Chef automatically connects the new servers into the existing infrastructure as necessary.
The wlp cookbook installs and configures the WebSphere Application Server Liberty Profile. It provides recipes, resources, and libraries for creating, managing, and configuring Liberty profile server instances.
See wlp cookbook.
To learn more about Chef, see the online Chef documentation How Chef works.
To learn more about using Chef cookbooks, see Get started with the Chef cookbooks .
Parent topic: Install Liberty
Parent topic: Administer the Liberty profileTasks:
Install Liberty using Installation Manager Install Liberty using downloaded files and archives
Install Liberty Repository assets