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Understanding Chef: The Practical Guide

Shouldn’t designing your cloud infrastructure be as easy as pie? Are you tired of having to put out fires where creating your machines are concerned? Well, no more! Chef is the perfect solution for cr...

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Course Description

Shouldn’t designing your cloud infrastructure be as easy as pie? Are you tired of having to put out fires where creating your machines are concerned? Well, no more! Chef is the perfect solution for creating some sweet and saucy cloud infrastructures. Configuration is often the most difficult part of designing an infrastructure, making it harder for developers to dictate how your infrastructure...

Shouldn’t designing your cloud infrastructure be as easy as pie? Are you tired of having to put out fires where creating your machines are concerned? Well, no more! Chef is the perfect solution for creating some sweet and saucy cloud infrastructures. Configuration is often the most difficult part of designing an infrastructure, making it harder for developers to dictate how your infrastructure should look, function and finally deploying it across multiple networks, well with Chef, kiss your troubles away.

What you’ll learn
  • What is Chef and how does it work?
  • Components of Chef including the development kit and Test Kitchen Tool
  • The Chef server
  • How to write your own Cookbook
  • How to deploy instructions to bring nodes to its desired state
  • How to Design and deploy a complete infrastructure from scratch on an actual LAMP stack.

Covering Topics

1
Section 1 : Introduction
2
Section 2 : Tools of the trade
3
Section 3 : Writing recipes in Chef
4
Section 4 : Advanced Cooking
5
Section 5 : Working with Chef server
6
Section 6 : Cookbook Marketplace
7
Section 7 : Other Important Concepts
8
Section 8 : Summary

Curriculum

      Section 1 : Introduction
1
Course Intro Preview
2
Introduction to configuration management Preview
3
Introduction to Chef
Quiz:
configuration management
      Section 2 : Tools of the trade
4
Chef Development Kit Preview
5
Chef Workflow
6
Understanding Ruby
7
Ruby Continued
8
Ruby Features
9
Advance Ruby
10
Ruby Conclusions
Quiz:
Tools of the trade
      Section 3 : Writing recipes in Chef
11
Chef - Simple Example
12
Using Version Control
13
Package Resource
14
OHAI
15
Creating chef recipe
      Section 4 : Advanced Cooking
16
Building a LAMP Stack
17
Building the cookbook
18
Installing Components
19
Installing PHP7
20
Installing Maria DB
21
Creating the Default Database
22
Installing Code Igniter
23
Running the Recipe
24
Cookbook Wrapup
Quiz:
Building the cookbook
      Section 5 : Working with Chef server
25
Chef Attributes
26
Attribute Precedence
27
Chef Server Types
28
Our lab architecture
29
Lab continued
30
Splitting our Infrastructure
31
Infrastructure continued
32
Chef Sever Wrapup
      Section 6 : Cookbook Marketplace
33
Introduction to Chef Marketplace
34
Wrapper cookbook creation
35
Using a marketplace cookbook
36
Implementing the cookbook
37
Deployment
38
Running and testing the cookbook
      Section 7 : Other Important Concepts
39
Roles
40
Testing the Role
41
Practical Lab Exercise
42
Chef Environments
43
Searching Chef
44
Searching inside recipes
45
Data bags
46
Data bagss - Part 2
47
Encrypted Data Bags
      Section 8 : Summary
48
Summary

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