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Overview
Chef training gives attendees a solid foundation in managing dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of servers using the operations management platform used by Facebook, Target, Nordstrom, and many other successful enterprises.
Objectives
At the end of Chef training course, participants will be able to
- Use Chef to deploy infrastructure as code
- Manage a large number of servers
- Use the chef-client on Linux and Windows platforms
- Become self-sufficient in navigating the Chef documentation
Prerequisites
All participants should have experience in:
- Writing code in a text editor
- Working on the command line
- Basic system administration, including installing packages, configuring those packages, and starting a service
Course Outline
An Introduction to Configuration Managementedforce2021-06-28T15:47:59+05:30
- A discussion of traditional scripting
- Why automate infrastructure?
- Infrastructure as Code
Chef Resources – The Fundamental Building Blocksedforce2021-06-28T15:50:34+05:30
- The Resource Domain-Specific Language (DSL)
- Common Resources – package, file, service, script
- Test-and-Repair: System State Management
Recipes and Cookbooksedforce2021-06-28T15:50:41+05:30
- Organizing Recipes with Cookbooks
- Generating and maintaining cookbooks
- Cookbook components and features
- Source Control and Collaboration with Git
Capturing System Details with Ohaiedforce2021-06-28T15:50:47+05:30
- System Profiling with Ohai
- How the chef-client gathers data
- Accessing Attributes on the Node Object
Attributes: Data-Driven Cookbooksedforce2021-06-28T15:50:53+05:30
- User-Defined Node Attributes
- Platform-Independent Recipes
- Attribute Precedence
Managing Variables with Templatesedforce2021-06-28T15:50:59+05:30
- File Resources – template, cookbook_file, remote_file
- Embedded Ruby Templates
- ERB Syntax
Testing Cookbooks – An Introduction to Test-Kitchenedforce2021-06-28T15:51:05+05:30
- Configuring Test Kitchen
- The .kitchen.yml file
- Deploying Docker Testing Instances
Chef Workstation Setupedforce2021-06-28T15:51:11+05:30
- Installing Chef Tooling Locally
- Text Editor Intellisense
Centralized Management with the Chef Infra Serveredforce2021-06-28T15:51:20+05:30
- Push vs Pull Architectures
- Using Hosted Chef
- Chef Infra Server Organizations – Users and Policy
- The Chef Starter Kit
- chef-repo/ components
Using Community Cookbooksedforce2021-06-28T15:53:35+05:30
- The Chef Supermarket
- Wrapper Cookbooks – Dependency Management
- Recipe Cookbooks vs Library Cookbooks
Multi-Node Infrastructure Managementedforce2021-06-28T15:54:17+05:30
- Bootstrapping Nodes
- Querying for Node Details with knife
- Managing and Assigning Runlists
Custom Run-lists with Rolesedforce2021-06-28T15:54:26+05:30
- Bulk Node Management with Roles
- Role Syntax and Structure
- Role Limitations – Role Cookbooks
Dynamic Searchedforce2021-06-28T15:54:31+05:30
- Chef Server Indices
- Searching with knife
- Debugging with Search
- The search Recipe Method
Environments: Development versus Productionedforce2021-06-28T15:54:38+05:30
- Methods for Creating and Assigning Environments
- Change Control
- Version Restrictions and Override Attributes
Automating chef-client Runsedforce2021-06-28T15:54:43+05:30
- The chef-client Community Cookbook
- Common Convergence Intervals and Offsets
- Service vs Task Recipes
Using Databags to Manage User Accountsedforce2021-06-28T15:54:53+05:30
- Custom Chef Server Indexes
- Creating and Uploading Data Bags
- Managing Users and Groups
