Chef Essentials

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Overview:

This 2-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:

Module 1: Chef – Overview

• 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
 

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
 

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
 

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


• Create a new cookbook for apache2 installation on Ubuntu server
• Write recipe for package install, service restart
• Create templates to be used in recipe
• Create index.html and log file to be used by recipe
 

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: Creating web role and using for Ubuntu server (Hands on lab by students)


• Understand and create web role
• Assign web role for chef node
• Validate chef-role is getting assigned to Ubuntu 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
 

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
 

On Completion of this program:

Participant should be able to well versed with Chef infrastructure deployment and management.

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