
Understand Chef, a configuration management tool that uses infrastructure as code to automate and standardize environments with recipes, client-server architecture, and Ruby-based scripting.
Explore the chef workflow, recipes, and cookbooks, and how the chef client and development kit coordinate server configurations. Install and verify chef dk, and note Ruby's role in writing recipes.
Understand Ruby, the scripting language used by Chef to write recipes, featuring dynamic typing, a hello world example with puts, and inline comments.
Learn Ruby basics for Chef recipe development, including using hashes, conditional and case statements, with practical examples on Vagrant and Chef workflows.
Learn about the three chef server types—hosted, on-premises enterprise, and open source—and how centralization and policy guide cookbook distribution to nodes. Use knife to upload cookbooks and manage organizations.
Learn to split infrastructure into observer and database servers, manage Chef cookbook dependencies and attributes, and spin up two Vagrant machines with knife bootstrap for automated deployment.
Split the setup into two machines, upload cookbooks to a central server, and bootstrap nodes with knife to download and apply recipes via chef.
Deploy a configured Engine X server with a wrapper cookbook, verify port 80 forwarding, and create a testing index file in a vagrant environment.
Test the role by running the chef client on database and web servers to verify policy compliance, and learn how roles, environments, attributes, and cookbooks interact to govern server configurations.
Break down automation with our tasty and easy to learn Chef tutorial!
Write your own code and design your infrastructure from scratch to build the perfect combination of machines for your need. Building and configuring your perfect cloud infrastructure shouldn’t be hard – and with Chef it really isn’t.
Chef is a collection of configuration management tools, that can help you code exactly how your infrastructure should look, behave and evolve. You write pieces of codes in Ruby, which are known as recipes, that are used to configure systems. These recipes are then deployed to multiple serves, which then follow the instructions defined in the cookbook.
If you want to become a chef and write the ultimate cookbook for your cloud architectures, then here is where you can start!
Our awesome course on Chef has been designed with the perfect combination of sweet and spicy to help you not only learn Chef, but also show you exactly how you can build the best stack. No more daunting concepts, that cover just theory and leave you more confused. Our ‘Understanding Chef’ tutorial will take you on a journey of learning Chef.
In this course, you will not only jump into Chef and it’s functions, but instead you will become familiar with it as you build a complete real-world example from the ground up. The course is a long lab that will take you through the features and functions of Chef by building an actual LAMP stack. Our hands-on approach to the course, will not only help you learn the basics but also actively build components on the development stack such as Apache Web Server, MySQL server, and PHP.
From working with Chef, to writing your own recipes and building your own blueprint, this course can help you through it all!
Enroll now and become a master chef of automation!