Chef

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Course Overview

This course covers the concepts of DevOps & configuration management tool Chef in specific. You will learn about the concepts of cookbooks, recipes, roles and attributes. Also you will learn how to use a central chef-server to manage the configuration while working with large fleet of machines.

At the end of the training, participants will be able to:

Pre-requisite

  1. Writing code in a text editor
  2. Working on the command line
  3. Basic system administration – installing packages, configuring those packages, starting service

Duarion

5 days

Course Outline

  1. High level overview of Chef, Recipes, Cookbooks, Runlists, Roles, Search
  2. Installation and Configuration
  3. Standalone Chef/ chef-solo
  4. Public Chef : client/server
  5. Hosted Chef/Multi Tenant Chef
  6. Workstation Setup
  7. Knife Client
  8. Test Node/Client Setup
  9. Convergence
  10. Node Object
  11. Cookbooks, Recipes Resources
  12. Packages, Cookbook Files, Services
  13. Run list
  14. Cookbook Attributes
  15. ERB Templates
  16. Cookbook Dependencies
  17. Data Bags
  18. Attribute Precedence
  19. Cookbook Metadata
  20. Execute Resource
  21. Not if/ Only if conditionals
  22. Directories
  23. Notifications
  24. Template Variables
  25. Roles: Role based attributes and merge order
  26. Chef Environments
  27. Using Community Cookbooks
  28. Chef Server Installation
  29. Cloud Integration Overview
  30. High level overview of Chef, Recipes, Cookbooks, Runlists, Roles, Search
  31. Installation and Configuration
  32. Standalone Chef/ chef-solo
  33. Public Chef : client/server
  34. Hosted Chef/Multi Tenant Chef
  35. Workstation Setup
  36. Knife Client
  37. Test Node/Client Setup
  38. Convergence
  39. Node Object
  40. Cookbooks, Recipes Resources
  41. Packages, Cookbook Files, Services
  42. Run list
  43. Cookbook Attributes
  44. ERB Templates
  45. Cookbook Dependencies
  46. Data Bags
  47. Attribute Precedence
  48. Cookbook Metadata
  49. Execute Resource
  50. Not if/ Only if conditionals
  51. Directories
  52. Notifications

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