Chef Configuration Management

Basic knowledge of Linux/Windows systems, command line usage and system administration

This 2-day course demonstrates through hands-on practice the basics of Chef, a configuration management tool, and how to use Chef for infrastructure automation.

Getting Started with Chef

• What is Chef
• Compobnents and topology
• Installation and first run

Nodes

• Physical Nodes
• Cloud Nodes
• Virtual Nodes
• Network Nodes
• Chef client
• Ohai tool

Workstation

• Command line usage
• ChefDK
• KitchenCI
• ChefSpec
• Policy
• Chef-repo

Chef Server

• Search feature
• Data bags
• Managment console

Analytics

• Actions
• Reports

Cookbook

• Attributes
• Recipes

Good to know about Chef

• Integrating Chef with: OpenStack, Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure
• Comparing Chef with another tools: Salt, Ansible