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Learn how to use Chef, a powerful platform that transforms your infrastructure into code, to simplify and automate configuration management.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • What you should know
  • My lab environment
1. Getting Started with Chef
  • What is configuration management?
  • Configuration management platforms
  • What is Chef?
  • Install the Chef development kit (ChefDK)
  • Provision a centos instance with Vagrant
  • Your first Chef recipe
2. From Recipes to Cookbooks
  • Resources and recipes
  • Test and repair
  • Organize recipes with cookbooks
  • The Apache cookbook
  • Apply cookbooks and include_recipe
  • Ruby and resources
  • Ohai – I'm the node object
  • Templates and embedded Ruby
3. The Chef Server
  • The benefits of using a Chef server
  • Get started with hosted Chef
  • Provision nodes with AWS
  • Bootstrap a node
  • Test deployments with Kitchen
4. Going Full Scale
  • Manage multiple nodes
  • Chef Supermarket
  • Wrapper cookbooks
  • Resolve dependencies with Berkshelf
  • Deploy the haproxy cookbook
  • Server artifacts: Roles, environments, data bags, and demo
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Robin Beck

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