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Hands On Chef for Devops

What you'll learn

Automate daily repetitive tasks in your environment with Chef
Setup Chef on Cloud environments like AWS
Get comfortable with Chef language
Use Chef Console to manage Automation

Requirements

Basic System Administration
Home Lab with VirtualBox (Optional)

Description

How does expressing Infrastructure as Code with Chef accelerate building, deploying, and managing infrastructure? This course will focus on executing Chef code with the chef-client and introduces the DSL for writing recipes and cookbooks.

DevOps practitioners and systems administrators interested in learning how to automate configuration tasks with Chef

What is so special about THIS course?

Lectures backed by animated slides makes it simple and easy to understand. This is the only course that is hands on and coding exercises where you can practice developing Chef.

Objectives

Introducing Config Management with Chef

Describe how automation and version control contribute to DevOps

Describe the Chef distribution model and the declarative syntax used in writing Chef recipes

Install the Chef Development Kit (ChefDK)

Recipes and Ruby Basics

Use the package and file resources inside of a Chef Recipe

Describe Ruby basics such as variables, arrays, and objects

Cookbooks and the Chef-client

Identify how recipes are packaged and distributed with cookbooks

Identify best practices of using Git for version control

Deploy a cookbook using the chef-client in local mode

Node Attributes and Templates

Work with system profiling with Ohai and accessing node object attributes

Use the cookbook_file, remote_file, and template Chef resources to manage files

Manage dynamic file creation using the template resource

Refactor recipes to use node attributes instead of hard-coded values

Practice: Working with a Simple Web Server

Build a simple Apache cookbook that configures a "hello, world" page to serve on the localhost

Who this course is for:

System Administrators
Systems Engineers
Infrastructure Automation Enthousiasts
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