First Steps with Chef - A Recipe for Infrastructure as Code

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1 hour on-demand video
$ 19.99

Brief Introduction

Learn to automate without scripting using Chef

Description

How does expressing Infrastructure as Code with Chef accelerate building, deploying, and managing infrastructure? This course will focus on executing Chef code with the chef-client and introduces the DSL for writing recipes and cookbooks.

DevOps practitioners and systems administrators interested in learning how to automate configuration tasks with Chef


What is so special about THIS course?

Lectures backed by animated slides makes it simple and easy to understand. This is the only course that is hands on and coding exercises where you can practice developing Chef.


Objectives

Introducing Config Management with Chef

  • Describe how automation and version control contribute to DevOps

  • Describe the Chef distribution model and the declarative syntax used in writing Chef recipes

  • Install the Chef Development Kit (ChefDK)


Recipes and Ruby Basics

  • Use the package and file resources inside of a Chef Recipe

  • Describe Ruby basics such as variables, arrays, and objects


Cookbooks and the Chef-client

  • Identify how recipes are packaged and distributed with cookbooks

  • Identify best practices of using Git for version control

  • Deploy a cookbook using the chef-client in local mode

Node Attributes and Templates

  • Work with system profiling with Ohai and accessing node object attributes

  • Use the cookbook_file, remote_file, and template Chef resources to manage files

  • Manage dynamic file creation using the template resource

  • Refactor recipes to use node attributes instead of hard-coded values


Practice: Working with a Simple Web Server

  • Build a simple Apache cookbook that configures a "hello, world" page to serve on the localhost

Requirements

  • Requirements
  • Basic System Administration
  • Home Lab with VirtualBox (Optional)
$ 19.99
English
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1 hour on-demand video
Raouf Nabi
Udemy

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