Intermediate Chef

Chef Essentials

Bascom Bridge’s  Chef Essentials training teaches attendees how to turn infrastructure into code in order to automate the configuration, deployment, and management of their servers.

Note: This course can be taught for Linux or Windows.

CHEF TRAINING OBJECTIVES

All students will understand the Chef architecture and learn how to:

• Automate the configuration, deployment, and management of their servers
• Use the set of tools included in the Chef Development Kit
• Automate their own infrastructure

CHEF TRAINING PREREQUISITES

All students should have experience in:

• Writing code (of just about any flavor) in a text editor
• Working with the command line
• Basic system administration-installing packages, configuring those packages, starting service

CHEF TRAINING MATERIALS

All Chef training students receive comprehensive courseware covering all topics in the course.

SOFTWARE NEEDED FOR EACH PC:

• Ubuntu 14.04
• Mac OS X 10.11
• Windows 7+
• SSH/SCP (OpenSSH, puTTY/WinSCP or equivalent)
• Programer’s text editor (Vi/Vim, Emacs, Sublime Text 2 or equivalent)
• For classes delivered online, all participants need either dual monitors or a separate device logged into the online session so that they can do their work on one screen and watch the instructor on the other. A separate computer connected to a projector or large screen TV would be another way for students to see the instructor’s screen simultaneously with working on their own.

CHEF TRAINING OUTLINE

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