Information Technology Reference
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Chapter 15. Environments
Environments are a feature of Chef Server used to model the server configurations required
during each phase of your software development lifecycle, as shown in
Figure 15-1
.
Figure 15-1. Environments overview
Environments reflect your patterns and workflow, and can be used to model the life stages of
your application, such as:
▪ Development
▪ Testing
▪ Staging
▪ Production
Every Chef Server starts out with a single environment, the
_default
environment.
