Chef Foundations Training

Level: Intermediate

Get started with Chef by taking official Chef automation training. This two-day instructor-led course that covers all the basics. You’ll learn what it means to turn infrastructure into code so that you can automate the 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.

*This course utilizes official courseware and lab environments directly from Chef.

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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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Chef Foundations Course Information

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
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.

Chef Foundations Course Outline

Using Chef resources – the building blocks
Building Chef recipes and cookbooks
Introduction to testing cookbooks with Test Kitchen
Collecting details about the system via Ohai
Attributes – writing dynamic code
Managing data with templates
Advanced templating – passing in variables
Storing your code in a repo - an introduction to Git
Workstation setup
Centralizing management with Chef Server
Using Community Cookbooks
Automating chef-client runs
Managing a multi-node infrastructure
Simplification and scalability through Roles
Power automation – invoking Chef Search
Staging versus Production - Environments
Using Databags to create user accounts on servers

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