Course Outline

Getting Started with Chef

  • What is Chef
  • Compobnents and topology
  • Installation and first run

Nodes

  • Physical Nodes
  • Cloud Nodes
  • Virtual Nodes
  • Network Nodes
  • Chef client
  • Ohai tool

Workstation

  • Command line usage
  • ChefDK
  • KitchenCI
  • ChefSpec
  • Policy
  • Chef-repo

Chef Server

  • Search feature
  • Data bags
  • Managment console

Analytics

  • Actions
  • Reports

Cookbook

  • Attributes
  • Recipes

Good to know about Chef

  • Integrating Chef with: OpenStack, Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure
  • Comparing Chef with another tools: Salt, Ansible

Requirements

Basic knowledge of Linux/Windows systems, command line usage and system administration

  14 Hours
 

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