Chef Fundamentals Bootcamp Bangalore by School of Devops

Objective of this course is to introduce students to what Chef is, make them familiar with the core concepts, Master/Agent and Standalone modes, and help them get started writing Infrastructure as a code. This course also teaches how to integrate Chef with AWS tools and manage complete lifecycle of cloud infrastructure.

Target Audience

This introductory course is targeted for the devops professionals, experienced sysadmins who want to understand what Chef is, how it is used, and how to use its primitives to automate their own infrastructure.

Prerequisites:

• Basic understanding of linux/unix system concepts
• Familiarity with Command Line Interface (CLI)
• Familiarity with a Text Editors

System Requirements

• Specified in a separate lab setup instructions document.

Course Outline

• High level overview of Chef, Recipes, Cookbooks, Runlists, Roles, Search
• Workstation Setup
• Knife Client
• Test Node/Client Setup
• Convergence
• Node Object
• Cookbooks, Recipes Resources
• Attributes and Templates
• Search
• Data Bags
• Roles
• Environments
• Using Community Cookbooks

Daywise Contents

Day I

• High level overview of Chef, Recipes, Cookbooks, Runlists, Roles, Search

• Learning Environment Setup

• Node Object

  • Creating Hosted Chef Account
  • Knife Workstation Setup
  • Node Creation
  • Bootstrapping Node
• Cookbooks, Recipes Resources
  • Packages, Cookbook Files, Services
  • Run list
• Chef Authentication ProcessResource Collection and Execution Phases
  • Validation Key
  • Client Key, Client configs
• Attributes and Templates
  • Cookbook Attributes

Day II

• Attributes and Templates continued....Cookbook Dependencies
  • ERB Templates
  • Template Variables
• Attribute Precedence
• Execute ResourceConditionals
  • Execute resource to run ad hoc commands and s
  • Controlling Idempotence
• Dependencies and Notifications
  • Cookbook Dependencies
  • Metadata , Versioning
• Search Deep Dive
  • Learning to use Search with Chef
  • Search Patterns
• Data Bags
  • Data bags to store global data
  • Search and Databags
  • Writing recipes to parse databags
• Roles
  • Roles to Provide Abstraction
  • Grouping together classes of servers with roles
  • Attribute precedence levels and roles
• EnvironmentsUsing Community Cookbooks
  • Environments to provide isolation
  • Cookbook constraints
  • Environment specific attributes 

Do I bring my own laptop to the class?

Yes. You will need to carry your own laptop to the class. We will provide you with all the softwares required and help you configure it. Wifi access will be provided.

What are the next steps after this course?

After you complete this course you consider following action, possibly in the order specified.

• Start applying knowledge gained to automate your infrastructure
• Start writing your own cookbooks and customizing community ones
• Consider Chef Advanced Course if required

** Training Materials Attribution **

We use the course material provided by Chef (previously opscode) with due attribution. We applaud their efforts to create top class content and to make it available to the community with Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 License. Even you could request for open training materials.

You could also avail for official training programs from Chef which are conducted all over the world.

About Trainer 

Gourav Shah

Being passionate about world of Open Source software, and then later managing systems at scale, Gourav has transformed himself to be an expert Devops Enabler. He has trained more than 2000 IT professionals from leading tech firms including CISCO, Intuit, Walmart Labs, Dreamworks, Accenture, Capgemini, RBS, Wells Fargo, Oracle etc. which makes him a coveted devops trainer. After heading IT Ops team for one of the successful silicon valley venture, he went on to launch Initcron Systems, a niche firm specialized in devops, cloud and School of Devops, a leading provider of devops education. He is the author of “Ansible Playbook Essentials” published by PACKT. Gourav evangelizes about Devops, Cloud and Automation Tools at various events, meetups and conferences. He has initiated Devops meetups in Pune, Mumbai and Delhi and is an active member/speaker at Devops Bangalore.