Chef Server Basics

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

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Overview/Description
Using a Chef server can accelerate the process of deploying cookbooks while providing visibility into the state of your infrastructure. This course will focus on Chef server policy and remotely deploying cookbooks.

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

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
1.3

Lesson Objectives

Chef Server Basics

start the course

describe why a Chef server is used and the cookbook distribution model

create an account on hosted Chef

configure a chef-repo using the Chef server starter kit

describe the chef-repo components and the user authentication model

use the knife command to view Chef server policy and node details

upload cookbook policy to the Chef server using knife

attach nodes to the Chef server with the knife bootstrap command

configure run-lists for nodes in bulk with roles

separate cookbook versions using Chef environments

search for Chef server policy with knife

refactor a recipe to utilize search to create dynamic policy with a Chef server

create custom searchable datasets with data bags

build a users cookbook that searches through a data bag to configure users and groups

Course Number:
os_doch_a02_it_enus

Expertise Level
Intermediate