Chef Fundamentals: A Recipe for Automating Infrastructure (Udemy.com)

The Chef-Certified beginners guide to developing cookbooks locally and distributing changes with a Chef Server

( 300 Reviews )

Created by: Robin Beck

Produced in 2021

What you will learn

Describe how Configuration Management with Chef is performed.
Be technically savvy in the process of installing and configuring servers in the cloud or in an on-premise datacenter.
Gain an understanding of Chef's core components, architecture, terminology and have basic fluency with the most commonly used tools.
Be able to utilize and describe Chef terms like Resources, Recipes, Cookbooks, The Chef Server, Roles, Environments, and Data Bags

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Course Description

Are you the only Chef in the kitchen? Is your infrastructure suffering from snowflake servers? Are you sick and tired of provisioning machines by hand every time you need to put out a fire? Configuring infrastructure shouldnt be painful, it should be a joy.

Chef Fundamentals has been reviewed and approved by the Chef Training team. The Chef team is excited about the partnership with Udemyand looks forward to the development of additional Chef courses.
Chef is aplatform for the DevOps workflow, andis usedto automateand manage it all--infrastructure, run-time environments andapplications. Themost enduring and transformative companies use Chef to become fast,efficient, and innovative software-driven organizations.

JoinRobin Beck as he automates everything in the only Chef-Certified class on Udemy.
Learn to combine resources into recipes, recipes into cookbooks, and transform your infrastructure into code. With Chef well learn to use the power of the Ruby language to eloquently describe the state of a system, whether youre new to automation or have been administeringsystems since 1992. Well learn how to locally configure a server with the Chef Development Kit, then use the power of a Chef Server to distribute your cookbook to one, or a hundred systems.

This fundamentals class will cover the basics of infrastructure as code. Start by learning about Chef architecture and the tools included in the ChefDK (Chef Development Kit). Then learn how to use a Chef Server to distribute your cookbooks to multiple servers as you push your application to production.
Who this course is for:
This course has been designed for DevOps engineers wanting to learn Configuration Management with Chef. Operations and Development personnel wanting to become DevOps engineers.

Time: 10h

Instructor Details

Robin Beck

4.6 Rating
300 Reviews

Robin has spent years working one-on-one with individuals who are trying to create positive change in their relationship with technology. His endless patience with others has been marked by his friends as a borderline character flaw, and has served him greatly in working with children and adults of all ages.

With eight years of teaching experience, Robin has finely-tuned his ability to communicate complex technical information in a relatable way with ease. Starting as a teaching assistant at Fiske Planetarium in Boulder, Colorado, Robin led star talks and gave presentations that were focused on improving peoples relationships with nature and the cosmos, eventually designing shows and curriculum before working as a Lab and Outreach educator.

Robin has completed two B.A.'s in astronomy and physics, and holds a technical certificate from the web development school RefactorU, where he has also served as an educator. Now Robin keeps TechnoTrainer's workforce moving forward towards excellence.

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By Jing Yan on 11/7/2020

Great course. Concepts are explained extremely clear, showing the instructor's knowledge. The pace is excellent and each section well design, showing the instructor's great efforts. The only issue I hit was having to switch from AWS instances to Vagrant/VirtualBox, as knife bootstrap wouldn't work with my EC2 instance with user "centos", while EC2 doesn't allow me to log in as "root".

By Rajesh Sanapala on 10/18/2020