Chef Technical Essentials

• 2 days of instructor-led training
• Training delivered by Cloud and Devops Consultant
• Trainer is also a consultant helping clients to migrate to Get into Devops culture

• Understand the core concepts of Chef Components
• Install & Configure Chef Server on Centos7
• Install & Configure Chef Workstation on Centos7
• Bootstrap Windows 2016 server – chef node
• Bootstrap Ubuntu 16.04 server – Chef node
• Bootstrap Redhat Linux server – chef node
• Write Cookbook-recipes for all 3 chef nodes to deploy web infrastructure
• Chef roles and chef environments

This is non certification based course. Designed for Chef Engineer role  as per industry specific requirements

• Systems administrators and IT managers
• IT administrators and operators
• IT Systems Engineer
• Linux/Unix Implementation Engineer or Administrator
• Windows Server Implementation Engineer or Administrator
• Cloud Systems Implementation Engineer or Administrator
• Network Implementation Engineer or Administrator
• Storage Implementation Engineer or Administrator

Module 1: Chef – Overview

•  Infrastructure-As-A-Code
•  Chef Components – 10000 feet overview
  • Chef Server
  • Hosted Chef Server
  • Chef Development kit
  • Chef Nodes
  • Recipes
  • Cookbooks
  • Chef Analytics
  • Chef Push job server

Module 2: Creating your own Chef server- Install and configure   ( Hands on lab by students)

• Deploy Ubuntu 14.04 Server
• SSH to Ubuntu Server
• Install chef-server on Ubuntu 14.04 linux server
• Install chef-manage on chef-server
• Install and configure Chef-Reporting

Module 3: Working hosted chef server   ( Hands on lab by students)

•  Create a user account on hosted chef server
•  Create organization on hosted chef server
•  Download chef-starter kit

Module 4: Install and configure Chef-Workstation on ubuntu  ( Hands on lab by students)

• Deploy a Ubuntu 14.04 server
• Ssh to Ubuntu server
• Install and configure Chef development kit
• Configure knife to interact with your own Chef-server
• Configure knife to interact with your Hosted Chef-server
• Configure SSL based connection to chef server

Module 5: Install and configure Chef-Workstation on Windows 7  ( Hands on lab by students)

• Install and configure Chef development kit
• Setup environment variables
• Configure knife to interact with your own Chef-server
• Configure knife to interact with your Hosted Chef-server
• Configure SSL based connection to chef server

Module 6 : Register a chef-Node Ubuntu server  ( Hands on lab by students)

•  Deploy a Ubuntu 14.04 server
•  Register the Ubuntu server under chef server management

Module 7 : Create a cookbook for  Ubuntu server  ( Hands on lab by students)

• Create a new cookbook for apache2 installation on Ubuntu server
• Write recipe for package install, service restart
• Create templates to be used in recipe
• Create index.html and log file to be used by recipe

Module 8 : Creating dependency cookbook for  Ubuntu server  ( Hands on lab by students)

•  Create a new cookbook for OS update installation on Ubuntu server
•  Write recipe for update of Operating system
•  Edit metadata.rb file to include dependency for apache2 cookbook

Module 9 : Creating web role and using for  Ubuntu server  ( Hands on lab by students)

• Understand and create web role
• Assign web role for chef node
• Validate chef-role is getting assigned to Ubuntu server

Module 10 : Create a cookbook for  RHEL-7  server  ( Hands on lab by students)

• Create a new cookbook for httpd installation on RHEL-7 server
•  Write recipe for package install, service restart
• Create templates to be used in recipe
• Create index.html and log file to be used by recipe

Module 11 : Create a cookbook for  Windows 2016 server  ( Hands on lab by students)

• Create a new cookbook for iis installation on  wind 2016 server
• Apply recipe to windows node
• Validate iis role is installed on windows server

Module 12 : Chef Environments  ( Hands on lab by students)

• Create a test environment
• Create a Production environment
• Assign nodes different environment and apply playbooks

• Gives an edge over other professionals in the same field, in term of pay package.
• Customer are transitioning to devops culture  .Hence would require engineers with devops tool understanding and working knowledge
• Helpful for People are trying to transition to  Devops Engineer roles from software engineer
• The tool training helps to speak more confidently about this technology at my company when networking with others.

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