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Chef for the Absolute Beginners - DevOps (Udemy.com)

Learn to automate without scripting using Chef

4.7
2,693 reviews

Created by: Mumshad Mannambeth

Last updated March 2026

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What you will learn

  • Automate daily repetitive tasks in your environment with Chef
  • Get comfortable with Chef language
  • Setup Chef on Cloud environments like AWS
  • Use Chef Console to manage Automation

How it compares

Against the other 219 rated Udemy courses in DevOps on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.7 out of 5higher than 91% of them
  • Reviews2,693#62 of 220 by number of reviews
  • Length2.2 hoursshorter than 84% of them
  • Last updatedMarch 2026more recently than 77% of them

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Course Description

What's in this course?

This course introduces a beginner in DevOps to basic fundamentals of Chef. The course introduces basic use cases of Chef followed by an introduction to Chef Resources, Recipes, Cookbooks, RunLists, Roles, and Ohai. Find demos that show how to set up a Chef environment on the AWS Cloud platform.


What is so special about THIS course?

Lectures backed by animated slides make it simple and easy to understand.


Analogy based Explanation

Complex concepts are made simple with explanations based on Analogies and Animation. This will ensure the concepts stick to your mind. Check out the first few lectures!


Course Structure:

- Lectures

- Demos


Course Contents:

  • Introduction to Automation

    • Understand automation concepts such as Declarative and Imperative Programming Patterns, Idempotency, Convergence,

  • Introduction to Chef

  • Setting up Chef

    • Set up Chef Workstation and Clients on AWS

  • Hosted Chef Server Setup

  • Chef Architecture

  • Chef Concepts

    • Resources

    • Recipes

    • Cookbooks

    • RunLists

    • Roles

    • Ohai

    • Environments


What is Chef?

Chef Software is a Configuration management and automation tool used to make your applications and systems easier to deploy. Avoid writing scripts or custom code to deploy and update your applications— automate in a language that approaches plain English.


Legal Notice:

Chef® is a registered trademark of Chef Software Inc. in the United States and other countries. This course is not certified, accredited, affiliated with, nor endorsed by Chef Software Inc.
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Instructor Details

Mumshad Mannambeth

Mumshad is an IT Solutions Architect and specializes in Cloud Native Computing, Automation and DevOps. He is the founder of KodeKloud - a hands-on learning platform and a Certified Kubernetes Training Partner. He is passionate about learning new technology and teaching. He believes the best way to learn is to learn by doing and in a fun way.  Mumshad has authored multiple courses on DevOps, Cloud and Automation technologies. His courses focus on providing students with an interactive and hands-on experience in learning new technology that makes learning really interesting.

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4.7

2,693 ratings on Udemy

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By Srinivas Navuluri on 7/28/2026

It is the best course, easy to understand and have day to day activities from configuration to deployment, I will recommend this course for the complete understand of the chef architecture, concepts.

By Oscar Campuzano Hernández on 1/20/2025

Me pareció un curso muy bueno y concreto para las personas que vamos empezando en este mundo de chef. Ojala me pudieran recomendar algún otro curso de Chef del siguiente nivel para continuar con mi aprendizaje.

By Christina Petala on 11/14/2022

The course was really good in the theoritical part and also if someone just wanted to watch the demos. If you tried to follow along and perform the demos, there was a mix up with the correct order of the lectures. At a point you were supposed to have a file downloaded and it was never mentioned in the previous slides. Please look into it and the review will change to 5 stars.

By Miguel Angel Diaz Gonzalez on 8/19/2022

It is an excellent first course on Chef, the topics were explained well and the the examples were very understandable and easy to follow.

By Anonymized User on 8/7/2022

Great animations, helps a lot to understand and stay focused. Demos are a bit fast and I had to rewind or revisit most of it to try the same in lab. Also, Chef DK is not available anymore and only chef workstation exists.

By Ryan Persson on 8/4/2022

Not bad, some missing pieces, would be good to have more info on testing using kitchen, Inspec, Chefspec, stuff like that. Also would be helpful if it gave other option on how to set up a chef node to test chef-client. Would be nice if code was available with an associated git repo too.

By Juli Kellogg on 1/1/2022

Very easy to follow and understand like the other for beginners KodeKloud courses. I appreciate how they are easy to follow along and review as needed.

By Mohd Amjad on 3/18/2020

Thank you for the wonderful coarse, enjoyed this coarse. I spent 1 month on this coarse, listen each word from you and the coarse is really very nice. Thank you again!!

By Rohit Sharma on 12/6/2019

Excellent course to begin with. It gives all the understanding of and about chef and different components. Suggestion 1. If a video can be added as how to create account in chef and map that with the clients 2. Resource download section with the frequently used command list. THANKS again for the excellent course

By Febin Krishna Cherukunnen Velandy on 3/8/2019

Course was a great help for me. However i would suggest to in slow down a bit, especially in the lesson when you were showing chefcook book creation , chef server-client configuration .. Rest all good .. keep the good guys ..

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