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
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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
