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LinkedIn Learning

Chef Essential Training

via LinkedIn Learning

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Overview

Learn the intermediate-level skills you need to automate the deployment, provisioning, and configuration of machines and applications with Chef.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • What you should know
  • Using the exercise files
  • Getting set up
1. Review the Fundamentals
  • Use Vagrant to create an Ubuntu node
  • The Chef development kit
  • Build a setup recipe with resources
  • Converge with the chef-client
  • Cookbooks to organize recipes
  • The LAMP cookbook
  • The web recipe
  • Ohai and system inventory
  • Using node attributes for tunables
  • Templates for config files
2. Community Code
  • The Chef Supermarket
  • Wrapper cookbooks and dependencies
  • Refactor using the httpd community cookbook
  • The hosted Chef server
  • Grab the starter kit and reorganize
  • Upload cookbooks with Berkshelf
  • Bootstrap the Vagrant node
  • Add a dependency on MySQL
  • The database cookbook
  • Data bags for sensitive information
  • Upload the data bags and converge
3. Complete the LAMP Stack
  • Add PHP to the mix
  • Create the php_app cookbook
  • The MySQL script
  • Populate the database
  • The PHP homepage
  • Review and deploy the LAMP cookbook
4. The Joy of Test Kitchen
  • What could we have done differently?
  • An introduction to Test Kitchen
  • Configuring the .kitchen.yml
  • Converge and destroy a Test Instance
  • Kitchen verify
  • Write an InSpec test
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Robin Beck

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