Getting Started with Chef Fluency

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James Bannan

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01 - Course Overview

01 - Course Overview.mp4

01:43

02 - Understanding Basic Chef Terminology

02 - Idempotence and Convergence.mp4

05:26

03 - Understanding Chef Recipes.mp4

07:37

04 - Default Actions and Cookbook Structure.mp4

07:49

05 - Understanding Chef Infra Server.mp4

07:06

03 - Working with Basic Chef Functions

06 - Understanding Chef Workstation.mp4

06:46

07 - Installing and Exploring Chef Workstation.mp4

05:11

08 - Working with Hosted Chef.mp4

10:39

09 - Understanding Chef Nodes.mp4

08:19

10 - Managing Chef Nodes.mp4

09:35

11 - Working with Test Kitchen.mp4

15:05

04 - Integrating Chef Design Philosophy

12 - Understanding the Recipe DSL.mp4

09:52

13 - Understanding Ruby Syntax and Functions.mp4

11:54

14 - Using Native Ruby in Recipes.mp4

03:44

15 - Working with Wrapper Cookbooks and Versions.mp4

10:55

05 - Managing Continuous Delivery

16 - Continuous Delivery and Automation.mp4

12:17

17 - Working with InSpec Profiles.mp4

10:07

18 - Cookbook Dependencies with Policyfiles.mp4

13:39

06 - Defining Custom Chef Resources

19 - Understanding Custom Chef Resources.mp4

10:33

20 - Working with Custom Chef Resources.mp4

07:47

Description

Using Chef to define and configure your systems requires an understanding of what’s possible as well as the tools you will have at your disposal. In this course, you will learn the fundamentals to develop configuration management solutions with Chef.

What You'll Learn?

Chef gives you the ability to define complex configuration management solutions, bringing your entire fleet of servers under automated, code-driven control with robust and independent testing and auditing. In this course, Getting Started with Chef Fluency, you will begin understanding what’s possible with the Chef platforms and tools which are available to you, as well as becoming familiar with the foundational concepts of Chef, including test-driven development and automation is critical in your role as a Chef developer and engineer. First, you’ll look at the core components of Chef, including Chef Workstation and Chef Infra Server. Then, you’ll explore the Chef design philosophy which brings native Ruby functionality into your Chef recipes. Finally, you’ll bring all this knowledge and learning together by exploring test-driven development Test Kitchen and InSpec. By the end of this course, you'll be developing custom Chef resources to easily deploy complex configuration management solutions.

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James Bannan

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James Bannan is a consultant based in Melbourne, Australia. He has worked in the IT industry for over 18 years and has worked in a variety of roles, from helpdesk to systems administration and now as a consultant. He is a published author, having written many articles for both print and online publications as well as a book on System Center Configuration Manager. James is an experienced public speaker and was awarded the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award from Microsoft for eight years in a row. He has worked in all aspects of Microsoft technology from end-user computing to on-premises datacenters, but now spends all his time working with Microsoft Azure, deploying and automating solutions for customers across a wide range of industries from government and retail to higher education. When not focusing on IT, James enjoys music and reading, spending as much time as possible with his wife and two daughters and taking the family dog Lexi to the beach.

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Pluralsight, LLC is an American privately held online education company that offers a variety of video training courses for software developers, IT administrators, and creative professionals through its website. Founded in 2004 by Aaron Skonnard, Keith Brown, Fritz Onion, and Bill Williams, the company has its headquarters in Farmington, Utah. As of July 2018, it uses more than 1,400 subject-matter experts as authors, and offers more than 7,000 courses in its catalog. Since first moving its courses online in 2007, the company has expanded, developing a full enterprise platform, and adding skills assessment modules.