Working with Chef Analytics

Working with Chef Analytics

Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
Course Number
Expertise Level

Overview/Description
The demand for IT personnel having an in-depth knowledge of Chef and Chef Analytics is increasing day by day. Chef Analytics is a configuration management automation tool used for auditing changes on a Chef Server. In this course, you will learn the basics of Chef Analytics as well as its installation, configuration, and setting up simple alerts and notifications.

Target Audience
System administrators, DevOps personnel, operations staff, managers, software developers, and anyone interested in learning the advanced features of Chef. A prior knowledge of Chef is essential.

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
2.3

Lesson Objectives

Working with Chef Analytics

start the course

describe the purpose, architecture, components, and network topology of Chef Analytics

distinguish between noteworthy Chef Analytics actions and events

describe how action logs are generated and recognize the Chef pipeline architecture

describe the network and system prerequisites for installing Chef Analytics

prepare the Enterprise Chef Server to communicate with Chef Analytics

list the steps to install Chef Analytics

list the post-installation steps of Chef Analytics that need to be performed on the Enterprise Chef server

use and deploy configuration files on the Chef Analytics server

describe how hostnames are used in Chef Server/Chef Analytics architecture

verify successful installation of Chef Analytics by using command line utilities

create a Chef client instance by starting Chef Client on a managed node

create an SMTP mail server to send Chef Analytics notifications

create simple notifications

create simple rules

create a simple trigger

recognize how audit-mode can be used to enforce server compliance

use Chef Tools such as Virtual Box, Vagrant, and Test Kitchen

recognize how to create a cookbook for server auditing

create and apply recipes to a Test Kitchen instance

create and use a web server cookbook for auditing

describe how to make updates to a web server to enforce compliance

create an audit alert when auditing a server for compliance fails

define audit triggering rules and describe what happens when an audit fails

recognize how audit rules are enforced in an auditing cookbook

create a recipe and a cookbook that will enforce compliance on a server and send a notification if the server is not compliant

Course Number:
os_chad_a01_it_enus

Expertise Level
Intermediate