Chef for the Absolute Beginners - DevOps
What you'll learn
- Automate daily repetitive tasks in your environment with Chef
- Get comfortable with Chef language
- Setup Chef on Cloud environments like AWS
- Use Chef Console to manage Automation
Requirements
- Basic System Administration
- AWS Account (Optional)
- Home Lab with VirtualBox (Optional)
Description
What's in this course?
This course introduces a beginner in DevOps to basic fundamentals of Chef with easy to do hands-on exercises that you can practice right in the browser. The course introduces basic use cases of Chef followed by an introduction to Chef Resources, Recipes, Cookbooks, RunLists, Roles, Ohai. Find demos that show how to setup a Chef environment on AWS Cloud platform. Each lecture is accompanied by a set of coding/lab exercises giving the user a hands-on experience in developing Chef code. Finally test your knowledge with the help of an assignment which will give you real world experience in solving a problem.
What is so special about THIS course?
Lectures backed by animated slides makes it simple and easy to understand. This is the only course that provides integrated lab environments with coding exercises where you can practice developing Chef code right in your browser.
Analogy based Explanation
Complex concepts are made simple with explanations based on Analogies and Animation. This will ensure the concepts stick to your mind. Check out the first few lectures!
Integrated Lab Environments
Yes! You heard it! We provide you with on-demand real lab environments that you can play around with right in your browser. You don't have to have your own environment setup (You can if you want to following our demos). The lab and the coding exercises challenge you to develop chef cookbooks and recipes to solve daily issues in an environment.
Course Structure:
- Lectures
- Demos
- Lab and Coding Exercises
- Quizzes
- Assignment
Course Contents:
Introduction to Automation
Understand automation concepts such as Declarative and Imperative Programming Patterns, Idempotency, Convergence,
Introduction to Chef
Setting up Chef
Set up Chef Workstation and Clients on AWS
Hosted Chef Server Setup
Chef Architecture
Chef Concepts
Resources
Recipes
Cookbooks
RunLists
Roles
Ohai
Environments
What is Chef?
Chef Software is a Configuration management and Automate tool used to make your applications and systems easier to deploy. Avoid writing scripts or custom code to deploy and update your applications— automate in a language that approaches plain English.
Legal Notice:
Chef® is a registered trademarks of Chef Software Inc. in the United States and other countries. This course is not certified, accredited, affiliated with, nor endorsed by Chef Software Inc.
Who this course is for:
- Absolute beginners in automation
- Those who wish to automate without coding
- Zero Scripting Knowledge
Course content
- Preview03:13
- Preview09:18
- 12:01Introducing Chef
- 4 questionsQuiz - Chef Introduction
Instructors
![Mumshad Mannambeth](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
- 4.6 Instructor Rating
- 105,799 Reviews
- 328,688 Students
- 15 Courses
Mumshad is an IT Solutions Architect and specializes in Cloud, Automation and DevOps. He is the author of Top 3% of Udemy's courses. He is passionate about learning new technology and teaching. He believes the best way to learn is to learn by doing and in a fun way. Mumshad has authored multiple courses on DevOps, Cloud and Automation technologies and teaches over 280,000 Students worldwide. His courses focus on providing students with an interactive and hands-on experience in learning new technology that makes learning really interesting.
- 4.4 Instructor Rating
- 3,000 Reviews
- 16,161 Students
- 2 Courses
Yogesh Raheja is a certified DevOps and cloud expert with a decade of IT experience. He has expertise in technologies such as OS, source code management, build & release tools, continuous integration/deployment/delivery tools, containers, configuration management tools, monitoring, logging tools, and public/private clouds. He loves to share his technical expertise with audience worldwide at various forums, conferences, webinars, blogs, and LinkedIn. He has written books on IT automation named "Effective DevOps with AWS", "Automation with Puppet 5" and "Automation with Ansible" which has been published by "John & Wiley" and "Packt Publisher". He has also reviewed some of the DevOps books for multiple Publishers.
- 4.6 Instructor Rating
- 105,216 Reviews
- 320,908 Students
- 14 Courses
KodeKloud is an online training institution aimed at providing quality, hands-on training in DevOps and Automation Technologies such Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Ansible, Chef, Puppet and many more. KodeKloud have authored multiple courses on DevOps, Cloud and Automation technologies and teach over 150,000 Students worldwide. Our courses focus on providing students with an interactive and hands-on experience in learning new technology that makes learning really interesting.