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Course Overview
This 2-day instructor-led Chef Essentials training teaches students critical skills and knowledge. Upon completion of this training students should be able to:
- Automate the configuration, deployment and management of servers
- Understand Chef architecture and the set of tools included in the Chef Development Kit
Schedule
Currently, there are no public classes scheduled. Please contact a Phoenix TS Training Consultant to discuss hosting a private class at 301-258-8200.
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Program Level
Intermediate
Training Delivery Methods
Group Live
Duration
5 Days / 32 hours Training
CPE credits
26 NASBA CPE Credits
Field of Study
Information Technology
Advanced Prep
N/A
Course Registration
Candidates can choose to register for the course by via any of the below methods:
- Email: Sales@phoenixts.com
- Phone: 301-582-8200
- Website: www.phoenixts.com
Upon registration completion candidates are sent an automated course registration email that includes attachments with specific information on the class and location as well as pre-course study and test preparation material approved by the course vendor. The text of the email contains a registration confirmation as well as the location, date, time and contact person of the class.
Online enrolment closes three days before course start date.
On the first day of class, candidates are provided with instructions to register with the exam provider before the exam date.
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Course Outline
Configuration Management and Chef
- What is configuration management?
- Why you need a configuration management tool to automate IT
- Why Chef may be a good tool for your enterprise
Configure your Chef Development Environment
- Installing and configuring all the tools necessary to write Chef automation code
- Supported development environments:
- Linux
- Mac OS X
- Windows
Ruby and Chef Syntax
- Ruby overview
- Ruby syntax
Write your First Chef Recipe
- Create a directory structure for your code
- Write your first Chef recipe
- Verify your first Chef recipe
- Recipe specify desired configuration
Manage Sandbox Environments with Test Kitchen
- Installing Vagrant and VirtualBox
- Host versus Guest
- Introducing Test Kitchen
- Spinning up your first virtual machine
- YAML overview
- Test Kitchen Configuration with .kitchen.yml
Manage Nodes with Chef Client
- Create a New Sandbox Environment For a Node
- Installing Chef Client with Test Kitchen
- Your first Chef-Client run
- Chef Client modes
- Ohai
- Accessing node information
Attribute
- Motd-Attributes Cookbook
- Setting Attributes
- Basic Attribute priority
- Include_Recipe
- Attribute precedence
- Debugging Attributes
Manage Multiple Nodes at Once with Chef Server
- How to install enterprise Chef server manually
- Install enterprise Chef server
- Introducing Idempotence
- Configure enterprise Chef server
- RSA key-pairs
- Testing the connection
- Bootstrapping a node
Community and the Chef-Client Cookbook
- Using community cookbooks
- Chef-Client cookbook
- Knife cookbook site plugin
- Manage Chef supermarket cookbooks on your Chef server using Knife cookbook site
- Chef-Client recipes
- Configure Knife to use a production SSL setup
Chef Zero
Search
- Search from the Command Line
- Search from the Command Line with Knife
- Search in a Recipe Using Test Kitchen
Data Bags
- Basic command line Data Bag usage with Knife
- Creating local users based on Data Bag items in a recipe
- Encrypted Data Bags
- Chef-Vault
Roles
- Create a web server role
- Attributes and roles
- Roles and Search
- Role cookbook
Environments
- Create a Dev environment
- Attributes and environments
Testing
- Testing your Chef automation code
- Testing rationale
BONUS! Cyber Phoenix Subscription Included: All Phoenix TS students receive complimentary ninety (90) day access to the Cyber Phoenix learning platform, which hosts hundreds of expert asynchronous training courses in Cybersecurity, IT, Soft Skills, and Management and more!
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