Chef Advanced

Schedules

Overview:

This 5-day course will provide deploying Chef infrastructure and configure Chef client and Chef workstation on Windows and Linux servers.

Prerequisite:

Linux basic skills (like working file and directories)

Who should attend:

Targeted for Cloud Engineers, Developers , Operations Engineer, Centre of Excellence Team, Microsoft Windows Server Administrators, Unix/Linux Administrators, Storage Administrators, Network Administrators, Virtualization Administrators.

Agenda:

Day 1 (Chef understanding, Chef Server install on Ubuntu, RHEL + Hosted Chef, Chef-Workstation)

Module 1: Chef – Overview

• Devops Big-Picture
• Devops Tools – SCM, CI/CD, Configuration management tool introduction
• Where chef fits in entire devops culture/tools
• Infrastructure-As-A-Code
• Chef Components – 10000 feet overview

Chef Server

Hosted Chef Server

Chef Development kit

Chef Nodes

Recipes

Cookbooks

Chef Analytics

Chef Push job server

 

Module 2: Creating your own Chef server- Install and configure (Hands on lab by students)


• Deploy Ubuntu 16.04 Server
• SSH to Ubuntu Server
• Install Chef-Server on Ubuntu 16.04 Linux Server
• Install Chef-Manage on Chef-Server
• Install and configure Chef-Reporting
 

Assignment 01 : Creating your own Chef server- Install and configure on RHEL 7 (Hands on lab by students)


• Deploy Ubuntu RHEL-7 Server
• SSH to RHEL-7 Server
• Install Chef-Server on RHEl-7 Linux Server
• Install Chef-Manage on Chef-Server on RHEL
• Install and configure Chef-Reporting RHEL
 

Module 3: Working on hosted chef server (Hands on lab by students)


• Create a user account on hosted chef server
• Create organization on hosted chef server
• Download chef-starter kit
 

Module 4: Install and configure Chef-Workstation on Ubuntu (Hands on lab by students)


• Deploy a Ubuntu 14.04 server
• SSH to Ubuntu server
• Install and configure Chef development kit
• Configure knife to interact with your own Chef-Server
• Configure knife to interact with your Hosted Chef-Server
• Configure SSL based connection to Chef Server
 

Day 2 (Register Chef-Node, Writing Cookbook for web on Ubuntu and RHEL)

Assignemnet-02: Install and configure Chef-Workstation on RHEL (Hands on lab by students)


• Deploy a RHEL 7 server
• SSH to RHEL 7 server
• Install and configure Chef development kit
• Configure knife to interact with your own Chef-Server
• Configure knife to interact with your Hosted Chef-Server
• Configure SSL based connection to Chef Server
 

Module 5: Install and configure Chef-Workstation on Windows 7 (Hands on lab by students)


• Install and configure Chef development kit
• Setup environment variables
• Configure knife to interact with your own Chef-server
• Configure knife to interact with your Hosted Chef-server
• Configure SSL based connection to chef server
 

Module 6: Register a Chef-Node running Ubuntu server (Hands on lab by students)


• Deploy a Ubuntu 14.04 server
• Register the Ubuntu server under chef server management
 

Assignment-03: Register a Node running RHEL server (Hands on lab by students)


• Deploy a RHEL 7 server
• Register the RHEL server under chef server management
 

Module 7: Create a cookbook for Ubuntu server (Hands on lab by students)


• Create a new cookbook for apache2 installation on Ubuntu server
• Write package resource type in recipe to install apache2
• Write service resource type in recipe to enable and restart apache2
• Write file resource type in recipe to create new files on node with content
• Create templates to be used in recipe – to push templates to node
• Create index.html and log file to be used by recipe
• Write cookbook_file resource type
 

Module 8: Creating dependency cookbook for Ubuntu server (Hands on lab by students)


• Create a new cookbook for OS update installation on Ubuntu server
• Write recipe for update of Operating system
• Edit metadata.rb file to include dependency for apache2 cookbook
 

Module 9: Apply Apache2 cookbook Chef-Node (Ubuntu server) (Hands on lab by students)


• Attach apache2 runlist to chef Ubuntu node
• Run chef-client on the node
• Test if you the recipe is applied and working as desired
 

Assignment-04: Create a cookbook for RHEL 7 server (Hands on lab by students)


• Create a new cookbook for HTTPD installation on RHEL 7
• Write package resource type in recipe to install HTTPD
• Write service resource type in recipe to enable and restart HTTPD
• Write file resource type in recipe to create new files on node with content
• Create templates to be used in recipe – to push templates to node
• Create index.html and log file to be used by recipe
• Write cookbook_file resource type
 

Assignment-05: Creating dependency cookbook for RHEL-server (Hands on lab by students)


• Create a new cookbook for OS update installation on RHEL server
• Write recipe for update of Operating system
• Edit metadata.rb file to include dependency for HTTPD cookbook
 

Assignment-06: Apply HTTPD cookbo0k Chef-node(RHEL server) (Hands on lab by students)


• Attach HTTPD runlist to chef RHEL Node
• Run Chef-client on the node
• Test if you the recipe is applied and working as desired
 

Day 3 (Chef Environments, Roles and local recipe apply, Win 2016 web node)

Chef Environments


• What Are Environments And Why Do They Matter?
• Creating And Configuring Environments ( Production and test environments)
• Creating A Second Version Of Our WebServer Cookbook
• Deploying To Different Environments
• Viewing And Deleting Environments With Knife
 

Roles


• What Are Roles?
• Creating A Web Server Role
• Building A Simple MySQL Cookbook For A Role
• Creating A DB Server Role
• Creating A Base Role
 

Addons


• Applying recipe locally on Ubuntu server
• Chef Solo vs Chef Zero vs Chef Server
 

Module 10: Register a Chef-Node Windows 2012 server (Hands on lab by students)


• Deploy a Windows server 2012
• Register the Windows server under chef server management
 

Moduel 10.A Chef Supermarket


• Chef Supermarket
• Using A Private Supermarket
 

Module 11: Create a cookbook for Windows 2012 server (Hands on lab by students)


• Download a community cookbook for IIS (web-server) Installation on windows server 2012
• Run cookbook on windows server
• Validate web server is installed on windows 2012 server
 

Day 4 (Advanced cookbook writing and Data bags)

Module 12: Create a load balancer cookbook (Hands on lab by students)


• Create a new cookbook for load balancer creation
• Bootstrap 2 web server nodes
• Bootstrap a load balancer node
• Write package resource type in recipe
• Write file resource type in recipe
• Upload to cookbook to chef server
• Attach runlist to a ubutnu node
• Run chef-client and verify load balancer is created and able server traffic web sever
 

Module 13: Create a cookbook for user and group for linux (Hands on lab by students)


• Create a new cookbook for user and group
• Write user resource type in recipe
• Write file resource type in recipe
• Write group resource type in recipe
• Upload to cookbook to chef server
• Attach runlist to a ubutnu node
• Run chef-client and verify user and groups are created
 

Module 14: Databags


• What Are Data Bags
• Creating User And sudo Group Data Bags
• Building A Recipe To Deploy Local User Accounts From Data Bags
 

Module 15: Create a cookbook if conditional statements (Hands on lab by students)


• Create a new cookbook for web server
• Write three recipes

Recipe 1 : To install Apache on Ubuntu

Recipe 2: To install httpd on RHEL

Recipe 3 : If conditional statements to ensure runs right recipe based node OSfamily

• Upload to cookbook to chef server
• Attach runlist to a ubutnu node
• Run chef-client and verify execution is correct
 

Module 16: Nodes and Search


• Node Object
• Working With Ohai and Node Attributes
• Knife Search
 

Day 5 (Docker and Kitchen)

Module 17: Understanding Docker


• Module Introduction
• What is Virtualization
• What are Containers
• Containerization and virtualization differences
• Case study : 100 developer environment
• Difference between win and linux containers
• Docker ecosystem and components
 

Module 18: Installing Docker


• Module Introduction
• Installing Docker on ubuntu 16.04 server
• Install Docker on Windows 2016 server
• Install Docker Toolbox on windows 7-8-10
 

Module 19: Containers On Ubuntu Docker host


• Module Introduction
• Deploy ,Login, exit container
• List,Start, Stop, restart containers
• Where containers are stored
• Working with container hostnames
• Working on multiple containers
• Container stats and inspect
• Container networking
• Deleting containers
 

Module 20: Kitchen


• Deploy a Ubuntu server
• Deploy chef development kit
• Deploy Docker
• Create chef cookbook of apaache2
• Write recipe in cookbook for apache2 install start and push index.html
• Kitchen create with docker provisioner
• Kitchen converge
• Kitchen destroy
• Kitchen test
 

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