Chef Essentials: Mastering the Basics of Config Management

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Alex Glover

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1 - Introduction Setup and Concepts

1 - Introduction.mp4

07:13

2 - Lab Setup and Requirements.mp4

04:05

3 - Lab Setup Cloud9 Optional.mp4

06:13

4 - Configuration Management and Chef Concepts.mp4

13:06

2 - Hands On Labs

1 - Hello World Quiz.html

2 - Resources Quiz.html

3 - Cookbooks and chefclient Quiz.html

4 - Templates and cookbookfile Quiz.html

5 - Attributes Quiz.html

5 - Hello World PreLab.mp4

04:03

6 - Hello World.mp4

10:09

7 - Lab Hello World Part 2.mp4

17:54

8 - Resources PreLab.mp4

05:00

9 - Resources.mp4

14:47

10 - Cookbooks and chefclient PreLab.mp4

06:33

11 - Cookbooks and chefclient.mp4

11:34

12 - Templates and cookbookfile PreLab.mp4

13:39

13 - Templates and cookbookfile Lab.mp4

20:01

13 - mycompany.html.erb.txt

13 - webpage.html

13 - webserver.rb.txt

14 - Attributes PreLab.mp4

12:55

15 - Attributes Lab.mp4

11:38

16 - Runlists PreLab.mp4

02:45

17 - Runlists Lab.mp4

10:07

18 - Conclusion.mp4

10:27

Description

Automate your server configuration and management. Accelerate your career. Master the Chef Essentials

What You'll Learn?

Understand Chef terminology and concepts
Automate server configuration with Chef recipes and cookbooks
Understand configuration management concepts such as idempotence
Leverage Erubis templates for dynamically configuring servers and applications
Implement attributes and understand precedence

Who is this for?

This course is meant for entry-level IT professionals with some basic Linux system administration experience and an interest in automation. No formal development or programming experience is necessary. If you are looking for Chef Server administration or advanced Chef Development Kit training, then please see my other Chef courses (coming soon!)

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Description
Are you looking to advance your IT career? Do you want to automate your System Administrator tasks on-prem or in the cloud so you can focus on the value-add problems? Would your organization benefit from faster, standardized, and predictable server automation? Are you trying to transform your legacy IT services into a DevOps model?

Then you need to take this course and start taking advantage of this amazing tool!
The Chef Essentials course will teach you the fundamentals of Chef, including how to install the Chef Development Kit, writing cookbooks and recipes, how to use recipe sub-components, and how to test your recipes locally.

This course includes reference materials and simple examples designed to help you build a solid foundation of Chef and configuration management knowledge. The course is primarily in video lecture format, but also includes quizzes throughout the course to check your comprehension and hands on projects to build real world experience.

It will take you roughly one week to accomplish Chef Essentials, depending on how much time you can dedicate to the course each day. The course is structured in two major sections, an Overview section and a Deep Dive section. The Overview section is designed to demonstrate the power of Chef, explain fundamental concepts, and explain Chef-centric terminology. The Deep Dive section will be comprised of lectures and hands on labs to teach you about:

Cookbooks
Recipes, including dependencies and 'include' statements
Templates
Attributes
Libraries
Troubleshooting

Chef experience can be a differentiator when looking for a new role and make you invaluable in your current position. Chef can automate your server configuration and is a crucial piece of any delivery toolchain. Chef provides the simple, reliable automation you need for configuration management, and this course provides the quickest path to leveraging Chef.

I look forward to you joining my course.
Who this course is for:
This course is meant for entry-level IT professionals with some basic Linux system administration experience and an interest in automation. No formal development or programming experience is necessary. If you are looking for Chef Server administration or advanced Chef Development Kit training, then please see my other Chef courses (coming soon!)

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I am a senior cloud architect with experience in both building custom, internal private clouds as well as leveraging public cloud providers. For the last 3 years, I've been architecting and deploying scalable, elastic, and highly-available applications, including large enterprise applications such as ERPs, eCommerce, and asset management suites. I have 8 years of broad IT and development experience and love teaching others.

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