This two-day Chef Essentials course will teach you to use Chef to turn infrastructure into code so that you can automate configuration, deployment and management of your servers.
You’ll also learn about Chef architecture and the set of tools included in the Chef Development Kit (ChefDK). Finally, we’ll show you how to test your infrastructure code so that you can deploy with confidence. Each of the core units includes hands-on exercises that will give you confidence in your new skills. At the end of the course, you’ll come away with a repo and the skills to start automating your own infrastructure.
You Will Learn How To
- Use Chef Resources to define the state of your system
- Write and use Chef recipes and cookbooks
- Automate testing of cookbooks
- Manage multiple nodes with Chef Server
- Create Organizations
- Bootstrap nodes
- Assign Roles to nodes
- Deploy nodes to environments
- Enable Chef’s search features with your automation
- Create acceptance and production environments
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Recommended Experience
Some familiarity with the following:
- Writing code (of just about any flavor) in a text editor
- Working on the command line
Basic system administration – installing packages, configuring those packages, starting service
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Course Preparation
Computer Labs Needed/Technical Specs:
Workstation Requirements:
Attendees should bring a wifi-enabled laptop to the workshop. The following operating systems have been tested as workstation systems with the hands on exercises:
- Ubuntu 10.04, 12.04
- Mac OS X 10.7.3+
Windows 7
Other platforms and platform versions may work without modification. Due to time constraints we will not be able to troubleshoot issues with unlisted platforms. Attendees should install non-Chef required software before the workshop starts.
- SSH/SCP (OpenSSH, puTTY/WinSCP or equivalent)
- Programer's text editor (Vi/Vim, Emacs, Sublime Text 2 or equivalent)
- Additionally, all attendees should install ChefDK.