Chef devops training Introduction

Chef DevOps is focused on how we operate & build high velocity organizations. How all organizations manage change to their infrastructure & applications for DevOps culture is rapidly becoming the norm. Chef, combined with DevOps, operate a high velocity organization that continuously delivers infrastructure and applications & provides more collaborative & automated workflows that make it possible to build.

Pre-requisites

• DevOps training should have IT experience
• There are no other prerequisites

DEVOPS ONLINE COURSE CONTENT

1. INTRODUCTION TO CHEF

• Common Chef Terminology
• Chef Server
• Chef Workstation
• Chef Workstation – Looking At Security And Configurations
• Chef-Repo
• Chef-Client
• Servers And Nodes
• Chef Configuration Concepts

2. BUILDING THE WEB SERVER COOKBOOK

• Getting Set Up
• Starting The Apache Recipe
• Adding Attributes, Recipe, And A Template
• Attribute Precedence
• Adding HTML Templates Dynamically With Chef
• Recipe Includes And Dependencies
• Copying Config Files To The Node
• Executing Linux Commands On The Node
• Adding Platform Support To The Cookbook
• Adding The Local Chef-Repo To Github

3. NODE OBJECT AND SEARCH

• What Is The Node Object?
• Search Concepts
• Searching Node Attributes Using Knife

4. CHEF ENVIRONMENTS

• What Are Environments And Why Do They Matter?
• Creating And Configuring Environments
• Creating A Second Version Of Our WebServer Cookbook
• Deploying To Different Environments
• Viewing And Deleting Environments With Knife

5. DATA-BAGS

• What Are Data Bags?
• Creating User And Sudo Group Data Bags
• Building A Recipe To Deploy Local User Accounts From Data Bags

6. ROLES

• What Are Roles?
• Creating A Web Server Role
• Building A Simple MySQL Cookbook For A Role
• Creating A DB Server Role
• Creating A Base Role

7. EXTENDING CHEF

• Knife Plugins
• Chef Supermarket And Chef-Client Cookbook

8. USING OPENSOURCE CHEF SERVER

• OpenSource Chef
• Configuring The Workstation And Bootstrapping A Node
• Closing. Bootstrapping Nodes And Deploying Cookbooks

9. DEPLOYING NODES IN PRODUCTION

• UnAttended Node Bootstrapping
• Chef-Client Cookbook (Security And Automated Runs)