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Chef Fundamentals: A Recipe for Automating Infrastructure

The Chef-Certified beginner’s guide to developing cookbooks locally and distributing changes with a Chef Server
Bestseller
Rating: 4.4 out of 54.4 (3,006 ratings)
17,029 students
Created by Robin Beck
Last updated 4/2020
English
English [Auto], Portuguese [Auto], 
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What you'll learn

  • Describe how Configuration Management with Chef is performed.
  • Be technically savvy in the process of installing and configuring servers in the cloud or in an on-premise datacenter.
  • Gain an understanding of Chef's core components, architecture, terminology and have basic fluency with the most commonly used tools.
  • Be able to utilize and describe Chef terms like Resources, Recipes, Cookbooks, The Chef Server, Roles, Environments, and Data Bags
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Course content

17 sections • 90 lectures • 10h 11m total length

  • Preview02:56
  • Preview02:20
  • Getting Started: Configuring Your Development Environment
    Preview02:20
  • Exercise: Install the ChefDK
    Preview03:04
  • Setup: Configure Your Lab Environment with Vagrant and Virtualbox
    12:42
  • Bonus Setup: Configure Your Lab Environment with Amazon Web Services
    18:00
  • Bonus Setup: Configure Your Lab Environment with Google Compute Engine
    14:03
  • Bonus Setup: Configure Your Lab Environment with Microsoft Azure
    15:55

  • What is Configuration Management?
    03:38
  • Infrastructure as Code
    03:00
  • Exercise: Your First Chef Recipe
    06:56
  • How Chef Thinks About System Components
    02:50

  • Preview01:55
  • Preview07:14
  • Preview06:30
  • Exercise: Create a Workstation Setup Recipe
    07:24
  • Organizing Resources with Recipes
    03:03
  • Test Your Knowledge About Resources and Recipes
    3 questions

  • Overview: Cookbooks
    01:06
  • Organizing Recipes with Cookbooks
    03:31
  • Cookbook Components
    09:32
  • Revision Control with Git
    16:37
  • Exercise: Deploy an Apache Webserver
    06:49
  • Cookbooks
    3 questions

  • Overview: The chef-client run
    01:02
  • Applying Recipes and Cookbooks
    06:17
  • The include_recipe method
    04:01
  • Exercise: Run the chef-client
    03:39
  • chef-client
    3 questions

  • Overview: Taking System Inventory
    01:27
  • An Object Called 'Node'
    08:39
  • Accessing Node Attibutes
    10:14
  • Exercise: Add Node Details to the Web Application
    05:18
  • Ohai
    3 questions

  • Overview: Using Template Resources
    01:07
  • Why Use Templates?
    04:41
  • Understanding Embedded Ruby
    07:29
  • Adding Templates to Recipes
    08:26
  • Exercise: Refactor the Web Application with a Template
    06:32
  • Templates
    3 questions

  • Overview: Other Common Resources
    01:17
  • cookbook_file
    07:42
  • remote_file
    08:09
  • execute
    13:19
  • user and group
    05:36
  • sending and receiving notifications
    08:35
  • Common Resources
    3 questions

  • Overview: Debugging, Linting, and Testing
    01:26
  • Explore the ChefDK
    08:13
  • Your Toolkit
    09:15
  • The Troubleshooting Process
    06:03
  • Demo: Breaking Things
    12:47
  • Bonus: Intro to Test Kitchen
    17:23
  • Bonus: Intro to ChefSpec
    13:45
  • Testing and the ChefDK
    3 questions

  • Overview: Interfacing with a Chef Server
    02:02
  • Why use a Chef Server?
    06:13
  • Exercise: Getting Started with Hosted Chef
    07:46
  • Exercise: Uploading Cookbooks
    06:41
  • Exercise: Reconfigure Your Vagrant Environment
    06:13
  • Exercise: Bootstrap your Web Server
    08:47
  • The Chef Server
    3 questions

Requirements

  • Before taking this course, we recommend some prior experience writing code. This can be just about any flavor! You don't have to be an expert developer to get started with Chef, and you don't need to be familiar with Ruby.
  • Understand how to use a command-line text editor, like Vi, Emacs or Nano to edit files.
  • Beginner-level experience navigating a Terminal, such as Powershell or Bash, and using it to perform basic file manipulations
  • A basic understanding of system administration, such as what it means to install and configure packages and start services.

Description

Are you the only Chef in the kitchen? Is your infrastructure suffering from snowflake servers? Are you sick and tired of provisioning machines by hand every time you need to put out a fire? Configuring infrastructure shouldn’t be painful, it should be a joy.

Chef Fundamentals has been reviewed and approved by the Chef Training team. The Chef team is excited about the partnership with Udemy and looks forward to the development of additional Chef courses. Chef is a platform for the DevOps workflow, and is used to automate and manage it all--infrastructure, run-time environments and applications. The most enduring and transformative companies use Chef to become fast, efficient, and innovative software-driven organizations.

Join Robin Beck as he automates everything in the only Chef-Certified class on Udemy. Learn to combine resources into recipes, recipes into cookbooks, and transform your infrastructure into code. With Chef we’ll learn to use the power of the Ruby language to eloquently describe the state of a system, whether you’re new to automation or have been administering systems since 1992. We’ll learn how to locally configure a server with the Chef Development Kit, then use the power of a Chef Server to distribute your cookbook to one, or a hundred systems.

This fundamentals class will cover the basics of infrastructure as code. Start by learning about Chef architecture and the tools included in the ChefDK (Chef Development Kit). Then learn how to use a Chef Server to distribute your cookbooks to multiple servers as you push your application to production.

Who this course is for:

  • This course has been designed for DevOps engineers wanting to learn Configuration Management with Chef.
  • Operations and Development personnel wanting to become DevOps engineers.

Featured review

Michael Perrett
Michael Perrett
3 courses
3 reviews
Rating: 5.0 out of 5a year ago
This course was an excellent place to start, prior to someone recommending this course, I started with learn.chef.io. It was very informative, however, in my particular case, I wish I would have started with the course first. Thank you!

Instructor

Robin Beck
Technical Trainer
Robin Beck
  • 4.4 Instructor Rating
  • 3,006 Reviews
  • 17,029 Students
  • 1 Course

Robin has spent years working one-on-one with individuals who are trying to create positive change in their relationship with technology. His endless patience with others has been marked by his friends as a borderline character flaw, and has served him greatly in working with children and adults of all ages.


With eight years of teaching experience, Robin has finely-tuned his ability to communicate complex technical information in a relatable way with ease. Starting as a teaching assistant at Fiske Planetarium in Boulder, Colorado, Robin led star talks and gave presentations that were focused on improving people’s relationships with nature and the cosmos, eventually designing shows and curriculum before working as a Lab and Outreach educator.


Robin has completed two B.A.'s in astronomy and physics, and holds a technical certificate from the web development school RefactorU, where he has also served as an educator. Now Robin keeps TechnoTrainer's workforce moving forward towards excellence.

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