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You're reading from Chef Fundamentals: A Recipe for Automating Infrastructure The Chef-Certified beginner's guide to developing cookbooks locally and distributing changes with a Chef Server

Product type Video

Published in Mar 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838824839

Length 9hrs 40mins

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Bash

Tools

Chef

Concepts

DevOps

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Venture Belafonte

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

1. Welcome to Chef Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER

Chef Fundamentals - Is this class right for me?
Course Roadmap
Getting Started: Configuring Your Development Environment
Exercise: Install the ChefDK
Setup: Configure Your Lab Environment with Vagrant and Virtualbox
Bonus Setup: Configure Your Lab Environment with Amazon Web Services

2. Chef and Configuration Management

What is Configuration Management?
Infrastructure as Code
Exercise: Your First Chef Recipe
How Chef Thinks About System Components

3. Resources: Chef's Basic Building Blocks

Overview: Chef Resources
Exploring System Resources
Convergence and Desired State
Exercise: Create a Workstation Setup Recipe
Organizing Resources with Recipes

4. Cookbooks

Overview: Chef Resources
Organizing Recipes with Cookbooks
Cookbook Components
Revision Control with Git
Exercise: Deploy an Apache Webserver

5. The chef-client run

Overview: The chef-client run
Applying Recipes and Cookbooks
Exercise: The include_recipe method

6. Ohai

Overview: Taking System Inventory
An Object Called 'Node'
Accessing Node Attributes
Exercise: Add Node Details to the Web Application

7. Templates

Overview: Using Template Resources
Why Use Templates?
Understanding Embedded Ruby
Adding Templates to Recipes
Exercise: Refactor the Web Application with a Template

8. Other common Resources

Overview: Other Common Resources
cookbook_file
remote_file
execute
user and group
sending and receiving notifications

9. Troubleshooting and Bonus Content

Overview: Debugging, Linting, and Testing
Explore the ChefDK
Your Toolkit
Overview: The Troubleshooting Process
Overview: Demo: Breaking Things
Bonus: Intro to Test Kitchen
Bonus: Intro to ChefSpec

10. The Chef Server

Overview: Interfacing with a Chef Server
Why use a Chef Server?
Exercise: Getting Started with Hosted Chef
Exercise: Uploading Cookbooks
Exercise: Reconfigure Your Vagrant Environment
Exercise: Bootstrap your Web Server

11. Community Cookbooks

Overview: Custom Cookbooks and the Chef Supermarket
Exploring the Supermarket
Create a Wrapper Cookbook
Adding Webserver Members
Managing Cookbooks with Berkshelf
Exercise: Deploy a Load Balancer

12. Managing Nodes

Overview: Going Full-Scale
Adding Nodes to your Organization
Exercise: Add a Member to the Load Balancer
Demo: Verifying Node Data with Knife
Bonus: Run the chef-client on a Schedule

13. Roles

Overview: Managing run-lists
Describing run-lists with Roles
Demo: Methods for Creating and Assigning Roles
Exercise: Create the load-balancer Role
Bonus: Converge Using the 'knife ssh' Command

14. Search

Overview: Indexing and Search
Exploring Chef Server Indices
Running Searches with knife
Demo: Refactor for Dynamic Load Balancing
Exercise: Testing the Load Balancer

15. Environments

Overview: Control Your Deployment
What is a Chef Environment?
Creating and Managing a Production Environment
Exercise: Deploy a Web Server to an Acceptance Environment
Exercise: Refine the Load Balancer

16. Data Bags

Overview: Organizing Custom Data Sets
What's in the Bag?
Creating and Managing Data Bags
Dynamic Search and Find
Exercise: Creating Users and Groups with Search
Demo: Encrypting Your Secrets

17. Graduation: Further Resources

What have we learned?
Continuous Learning and Continuous Delivery
Keep Learning and Practicing
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