Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
Environment
logical grouping of nodes either horizontally (i.e., staging and production) or vertically
(i.e., east coast and west coast)
ERB
See
Embedded Ruby
File
a static file or binary for distribution onto a node
Hosted Chef
See
Hosted Enterprise Chef
Hosted Enterprise Chef
the cloud-based Software-as-a-Service version of Chef; formerly called Hosted Chef
Idempotent
See
Idempotency
Idempotency
a mathematical property of certain operations such that the operation can be applied mul-
tiple times, but the end result is always the same
Interactive Ruby
the read-eval-print-loop (REPL) for Ruby on the command line
Interactive Ruby Shell
See
Interactive Ruby
