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Gain speed, scale, and consistency by automating your infrastructure with Chef

What you’ll learn

Build, deploy, and manage with Chef Automate

Manage your Infrastructure based on server roles

Create custom Ohai and Knife plugins

Bootstrap Linux and windows nodes and bring them to your Chef ecosystem

Create test environments with VirtualBox and Vagrant

Learn to evaluate and troubleshoot cookbooks and Chef runs

Install on-premise Chef servers and understand the server components and architecture

Work with Chef testing frameworks

Requirements

This course is for system eeers and administrators who have a fundamental understanding of information management systems and infrastructure

Description

Chef is a configuration management tool that lets you automate your more cumbersome IT infrastructure processes and control a large network of computers (and virtual machines) from one master server. This course will help you solve everyday problems with your IT infrastructure with Chef. It starts with recipes that will show you how to effectively manage your infrastructure and solve problems with users, applications, and automation. You will then come across a new testing framework, InSpec, to test any node in your infrastructure. Further on, you will learn to customize plugins and write cross-platform cookbooks for specific platforms. You will also install packages from a third-party repository and learn how to manage users and applications. Towards the end of the course, you will build high-availability services and explore what Habitat is and how you can implement it.

About the Author

Mohammad Sharique Kamal is an Automation and DevOps Eeer at Intel Security with 9+ years’ experience in Hybrid Server Environment (Windows, RHEL and SUSE) with Full D implementation via Chef, Jenkins, GIT, Puppet, and so on.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction to Configuration Management Tools and Chef

Lecture 1 The Course Overview

Lecture 2 Configuration Management Tools and Chef

Lecture 3 Chef Head-to-head with Other Leading CM Tools

Section 2: Installation and Configuration – Creating Chef Ecosystem

Lecture 4 Chef Server Types

Lecture 5 Installing a Local Chef Server

Lecture 6 Create an Account on Hosted Chef

Lecture 7 ChefDK and Chef Workstation Configuration

Lecture 8 A Close Look at knife.rb and chef-repo

Lecture 9 Bootstrapping a Node

Section 3: Understanding Chef Ecosystem

Lecture 10 Building Blocks of Chef Recipe Writing

Lecture 11 Common Chef Resources and Chef Guards

Lecture 12 Understanding the Chef-client Run

Lecture 13 Working with Chef Run_list

Lecture 14 Roles and Environments – An Introduction

Lecture 15 Versioning Cookbooks and Mapping to Environments

Lecture 16 Chef Supermarket

Section 4: Chef Internals

Lecture 17 Node Object and Ohai (Chef Profiler)

Lecture 18 Using Search in Chef

Lecture 19 Chef Security and Configuration Files

Section 5: Working with Chef Testing Framework

Lecture 20 Test Driven Development Using Test Kitchen

Lecture 21 Test Kitchen

Lecture 22 Using Test Kitchen for TDD in Chef

Section 6: Additional Chef Components

Lecture 23 Understanding the Use-case for Chef Automate

Lecture 24 Application Automation with Chef Habitat

Lecture 25 Policy Adherence with Chef Compliance

It is also for DevOps Eeers, IT professionals, and organizations who want to automate and gain greater control of their infrastructures with Chef