Learning Chef

2h 56mBeginner2017-05-18

Authors

Robin Beck

Lead Technical Trainer helping developers with infrastructure challenges

Course details

You can transform infrastructure into code using Chef—a powerful platform that provides automation solutions, a development kit, and more. This course explains how to use Chef architecture and tools to simplify and automate configuration management. Learn how to install Chef, configure settings, and more. Join Robin Beck as he shows you how to leverage recipes and cookbooks, deploy a Chef server, and take your infrastructure full scale by managing multiple nodes and resolving dependencies.

Learning objectives
Configuration management
Using Chef
Installing the Chef development kit (ChefDK)
Provisioning a CentOS instance
Using recipes and the Apache cookbook
Working with nodes and node objects
Using templates and embedded Ruby
Hosting a Chef server
Provisioning nodes with AWS
Testing deployments with Kitchen
Exploring the Chef Supermarket
Resolving dependencies with Berkshelf
Working with server roles, environments, and data bags

Skills covered

ChefHosted Chef ServerChef Development KitVagrantDevOps ToolsDevOpsLearningOpen Source

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - What you should know
03 - My lab environment

1. Getting Started with Chef

04 - What is configuration management
05 - Configuration management platforms
06 - What is Chef
07 - Install the Chef development kit (ChefDK)
08 - Provision a centos instance with Vagrant
09 - Your first Chef recipe

2. From Recipes to Cookbooks

10 - Resources and recipes
11 - Test and repair
12 - Organize recipes with cookbooks
13 - The Apache cookbook
14 - Apply cookbooks and include recipe
15 - Ruby and resources
16 - Ohai I'm the node object
17 - Templates and embedded Ruby

3. The Chef Server

18 - The benefits of using a Chef server
19 - Get started with hosted Chef
20 - Provision nodes with AWS
21 - Bootstrap a node
22 - Test deployments with Kitchen

4. Going Full Scale

23 - Manage multiple nodes
24 - Chef Supermarket
25 - Wrapper cookbooks
26 - Resolve dependencies with Berkshelf
27 - Deploy the haproxy cookbook
28 - Server artifacts - Roles, environments, data bags, and demo

Conclusion

29 - Next steps