Course description
Get started with Chef by taking official Chef automation training. This two-day instructor-led course that covers all the basics. You’ll learn what it means to turn infrastructure into code so that you can automate the configuration, deployment, and management of your servers. You’ll also learn about Chef architecture and the set of tools included in the Chef Development Kit (ChefDK). Finally, we’ll show you how to test your infrastructure code so that you can deploy with confidence. Each of the core units includes hands-on exercises that will give you confidence in your new skills. At the end of the course, you’ll come away with a repo and the skills to start automating your own infrastructure.
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Training content
Course Outline:
Part 1: Using Chef resources – the building blocks
Part 2 : Building Chef recipes and cookbooks
Part 3: Introduction to testing cookbooks with Test Kitchen
Part 4: Collecting details about the system via Ohai
Part 5: Attributes – writing dynamic code
Part 6: Managing data with templates
Part 7: Advanced templating – passing in variables
Part 8: Storing your code in a repo – an introduction to Git
Part 9: Workstation setup
Part 10: Centralizing management with Chef Server
Part 11: Using Community Cookbooks
Part 12: Automating chef-client runs
Part 13: Managing a multi-node infrastructure
Part 14: Simplification and scalability through Roles
Part 15: Power automation – invoking Chef Search
Part 16: Staging versus Production – Environments
Part 17: Using Databags to create user accounts on servers
Certification / Credits
In this 3-day class you’ll learn:
- Use Chef Resources to define the state of your system
- Write and use Chef recipes and cookbooks
- Automate testing of cookbooks
- Manage multiple nodes with Chef Server
- Create Organizations
- Bootstrap nodes
- Assign Roles to nodes
- Deploy nodes to environments
- Enable Chef’s search features with your automation
- Create acceptance and production environments
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Velocity Knowledge is an Enterprise Education Provider made up of qualified educational professionals who have survived the budget cuts, lived through the training wars, adjusted to industry changes, and learned what it is that customers are looking for. Velocity Knowledge...