The Ultimate Chef Training Course: DevOps Automation

This course will teach you to build, deploy, and manage any application in any environment with Chef.

Created by: Robert Wilcox
Infrastructure Software Engineer

What Will I Learn?

• Understand the Chef ecosystem and its associated components
• Manage and scale your cloud infrastructure by automating configuration management
• Install all the components of Chef, including troubleshooting instructions
• Model your infrastructure using Chef
• Make infrastructure configurations testable, portable, and auditable with Chef
• Build code to configure and apply patches in any environment, create secure and compliant applications, and modernize legacy applications without replacing them
• Test your cookbooks with Test Kitchen
• Learn How to Create Custom Ohai
• Create recipes to provision, harden, and maintain the configuration state of servers in any environment
• Discover how Chef InSpec is used to test and audit your applications and infrastructure
• Build applications to run anywhere and manage them throughout their lifecycle using Chef Habitat
• Create a filterable, auditable dashboard and use it to visualize real-time data and server metrics and scan traditional servers, VMs, and cloud environments
• Explore various aspects of the Chef API
• Extend the functionalities of Chef
• Provide dashboard analytics for infrastructure automation with Chef Automate

Requirements

• You have an attitude to learn while having fun 🙂

Target audience

• Web Developers
• Software Developers
• Programmers