Chef Essentials- Mastering the Basics of Config Management

Chef Essentials: Mastering the Basics of Config Management, available at $49.99, has an average rating of 4.83, with 18 lectures, 5 quizzes, based on 589 reviews, and has 3296 subscribers.

You will learn about 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 This course is ideal for individuals who are 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!) It is particularly useful 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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Summary

Title: Chef Essentials: Mastering the Basics of Config Management

Price: $49.99

Average Rating: 4.83

Number of Lectures: 18

Number of Quizzes: 5

Number of Published Lectures: 18

Number of Published Quizzes: 5

Number of Curriculum Items: 23

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 23

Original Price: $39.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will 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 Should Attend

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!)

Target Audiences

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!)

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.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction, Setup, and Concepts

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Lab Setup and Requirements

Lecture 3: Lab Setup – Cloud9 (Optional)

Lecture 4: Configuration Management and Chef Concepts

Chapter 2: Hands On Labs

Lecture 1: Hello World Pre-Lab

Lecture 2: Hello World

Lecture 3: Lab: Hello World Part 2

Lecture 4: Resources Pre-Lab

Lecture 5: Resources

Lecture 6: Cookbooks and chef-client Pre-Lab

Lecture 7: Cookbooks and chef-client

Lecture 8: Templates and cookbook_file Pre-Lab

Lecture 9: Templates and cookbook_file Lab

Lecture 10: Attributes Pre-Lab

Lecture 11: Attributes Lab

Lecture 12: Run-lists Pre-Lab

Lecture 13: Run-lists Lab

Lecture 14: Conclusion

Instructors

Alex Glover
Senior Cloud Architect

Rating Distribution

1 stars: 8 votes

2 stars: 15 votes

3 stars: 59 votes

4 stars: 241 votes

5 stars: 266 votes

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