First Steps with Chef

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

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Overview/Description
How does expressing Infrastructure as Code with Chef accelerate building, deploying, and managing infrastructure? This course will focus on executing Chef code with the chef-client and introduces the DSL for writing recipes and cookbooks.

Target Audience
DevOps practitioners and systems administrators interested in learning how to automate configuration tasks with Chef

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
1.3

Lesson Objectives

First Steps with Chef

start the course

describe how automation and version control contribute to DevOps

describe the Chef distribution model and the declarative syntax used in writing Chef recipes

install the Chef Development Kit (ChefDK)

use the package and file resources inside of a Chef Recipe

describe Ruby basics such as variables, arrays, and objects

identify how recipes are packaged and distributed with cookbooks

identify best practices of using Git for version control

deploy a cookbook using the chef-client in local mode

work with system profiling with Ohai and accessing node object attributes

use the cookbook_file, remote_file, and template Chef resources to manage files

manage dynamic file creation using the template resource

refactor recipes to use node attributes instead of hard-coded values

build a simple Apache cookbook that configures a "hello, world" page to serve on the localhost

Course Number:
os_doch_a01_it_enus

Expertise Level
Intermediate