Chef Essentials

Course Description

Get started with Chef by taking Chef Essentials. It's a 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 will also learn about Chef architecture and the set of tools included in the Chef Development Kit (ChefDK). Finally, we will 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.
2 Days
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Prerequisites

Participants should have have some familiarity and comfort 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

2 Day course content

Introduction
Resources
Cookbooks
Ohai
Templates
Lab
Workstation installation
Signing up for Managed Chef
The Chef server
Community cookbooks
Managing multiple nodes
Roles
Search
Environments
Further resources

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 14.04
Mac OS X 10.11
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.
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