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Deploying Chef Cookbooks

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Managing thousands of servers in your infrastructure is extremely complex. In this course, Deploying Chef Cookbooks, you will gain the ability to automate the management of your servers using Chef Server. First, you will learn to bootstrap servers running Linux and Windows. Next, you will discover how to organize nodes using roles, environments, and policies. Additionally, you will explore how to automate the provisioning of new servers. When you are finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge of Chef Server needed to automate the management of your infrastructure.

Syllabus

  • Course Overview 1min
  • Overview and Setup 13mins
  • Uploading Cookbooks to Chef Server 13mins
  • Setting up Environments, Roles, and Policies 28mins
  • Setting up and Bootstrapping Nodes 26mins
  • Bootstrapping a Windows Node 10mins
  • Using the ‘Knife’ Command 15mins
  • Performing a Chef Client Run 16mins
  • Creating Lone Wolf Nodes with Chef Solo 6mins

Taught by

Jake Watkins

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4.2 rating at Pluralsight based on 17 ratings

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