Chef Fundamentals: A Recipe for Automating Infrastructure

Description

Are you the only Chef in the kitchen? Is your infrastructure suffering from snowflake servers? Are you sick and tired of provisioning machines by hand every time you need to put out a fire? Configuring infrastructure shouldn't be painful, it should be a joy. Chef Fundamentals has been reviewed and approved by the Chef Training team. The Chef team looks forward to the development of additional Chef Courses. Chef is a platform for the DevOps workflow, and is used to automate and manage it all--infrastructure, run-time environments and applications. The most enduring and transformative companies use Chef to become fast, efficient, and innovative software-driven organizations. Join Robin Beck as he automates everything in the only Chef-Certified class. Learn to combine resources into recipes, recipes into cookbooks, and transform your infrastructure into code. With Chef we'll learn to use the power of the Ruby language to eloquently describe the state of a system, whether you're new to automation or have been administering systems since 1992. We'll learn how to locally configure a server with the Chef Development Kit, then use the power of a Chef Server to distribute your cookbook to one, or a hundred systems. All the code and supporting files for this course are available at: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Chef-Fundamentals-A-Recipe-for-Automating-Infrastructure

What You Will Learn

•  Describe how Configuration Management with Chef is performed.
•  Be technically savvy in the process of installing and configuring servers in the cloud or in an on-premise datacentre.
•  Gain an understanding of Chef s core components, architecture, and terminology and have basic fluency with the most commonly used tools.
•  Be able to utilize and describe Chef terms like Resources, Recipes, Cookbooks, The Chef Server, Roles, Environments, and Data Bags

Audience

This course has been designed for DevOps engineers wanting to learn Configuration Management with Chef and also for operations and development personnel wanting to become DevOps engineers.

Approach

This fundamentals class will cover the basics of infrastructure as code. Start by learning about Chef Architecture and the tools included in the ChefDK (Chef Development Kit). Then learn how to use a Chef Server to distribute your cookbooks to multiple servers as you push your application to production

Key Features

•  A basic understanding of system administration, such as what it means to install and configure packages and start services. * •  Beginner-level experience navigating a Terminal, such as Powershell or Bash, and using it to perform basic file manipulations * •  Understand how to use a command-line text editor, like Vi, Emacs or Nano to edit files. *

Github Repo

https://github.com/packtpublishing/chef-fundamentals-a-recipe-for-automating-infrastructure

About the Author

Venture Belafonte

Robin Beck and Sam McFadyen are co-owners of Venture Belafonte

Course Outline

1. Welcome to Chef Fundamentals

2. Chef and Configuration Management

3. Resources: Chef's Basic Building Blocks

4. Cookbooks

5. The chef-client run

6. Ohai

7. Templates

8. Other common Resources

9. Troubleshooting and Bonus Content

10. The Chef Server

11. Community Cookbooks

12. Managing Nodes

13. Roles

14. Search

15. Environments

16. Data Bags

17. Graduation: Further Resources