In our new collaboration with Tealeaf Academy friends, we are writing about Chef/Vagrant and how to use them to manage and test your servers configuration.

This is a step-by-step guide (including github projects) to bootstrap and cook a basic Rails server:

• Step 1. Vagrant: Creating your Development environment (Server Virtualization)
• Step 2. Knife-solo: Kitchen structure
• Step 3. Librarian: Managing dependencies
• Step 4. Creating your own cookbook (rails-stack)
• Step 5. Cook your Vagrant Box
• Step 6. Cook a real server
• Step 7. Deploy with Capistrano
• Conclusions

Enjoy!!