Chef Training

Chef Training Overview

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Chef is an open-source configuration management tool developed by opscode. It is written in Ruby and Erlang. It automates the configuration and maintenance of more than one server. Chef uses Domain Specific Language (DSL) for writing system configuration. Chef follows a client-server architecture.

Chef Training Objective

  • Fully automated deployment
  • Within a minute you can configure thousands of nodes.
  • Integrate with a cloud-based platform like AWS.
  • Chef keeps the system under consistent check.
  • You can record the entire infrastructure in the form of chef repository.
  • The chef plays a vital role in DevOps software lifecycle

Chef Training Audience

Who want to understand the features and functionality of Chef and how Chef can help in reducing the complexity of managing infrastructure.

Chef Training Prerequisites

  • Participant should have an understanding of system administration, infrastructure and network protocol communication.
  • To automate the infrastructure provisioning, one should have a command over basic Ruby script writing and the underlying system where one wants to use Chef.

Chef Training Outline

  • What is DevOps and comparison to other DevOps tools
  • Chef-Server
  • Common Chef Terminology
  • Chef-workstation
  • Chef client
  • Chef Repository
  • Chef Configuration Concepts
  • Chef solo
  • Server and nodes
  • Starting with Apache Recipe
  • Adding attributes and templates
  • Attribute Precedence
  • Copying file to the webserver
  • Adding platform support
  • Chef local repository to GitHub
  • Recipe includes and dependencies
  • Adding HTML templates dynamically
  • Information gathering and setup
  • Docker recipe to container images
  • Attribute precedence
  • Launching container and monitoring
  • Adding docker file dynamic container
  • Containerizing customizing on the nodes
  • What is Node Object
  • Search Concept
  • Searching Node Attributes Using Knife
  • What is Data Bags
  • Creating User and Sudo group Data bags
  • Building A Recipe To Deploy Local User Account
  • What is Environment and why they do matter
  • Creating And Configuring Environment
  • Creating A Second Version of Our Web Server Cookbook
  • Deploying To Different Environment
  • What are the Roles
  • Creating Web Server Roles
  • Building A simple MySQL and Apache role
  • Create a DB role
  • Creating A base role
  • Knife Plugins
  • Chef Supermarket and Chef Client
  • Deploy chef environment with High availability, replication features
  • Integration of chef with public and private cloud
  • AWS integration
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