Chef Essential Training

Learn the intermediate-level skills you need to automate the deployment, provisioning, and configuration of machines and applications with Chef.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know
• Using the exercise files
• Getting set up

1. Review the Fundamentals

• Use Vagrant to create an Ubuntu node
• The Chef development kit
• Build a setup recipe with resources
• Converge with the chef-client
• Cookbooks to organize recipes
• The LAMP cookbook
• The web recipe
• Ohai and system inventory
• Using node attributes for tunables
• Templates for config files

2. Community Code

• The Chef Supermarket
• Wrapper cookbooks and dependencies
• Refactor using the httpd community cookbook
• The hosted Chef server
• Grab the starter kit and reorganize
• Upload cookbooks with Berkshelf
• Bootstrap the Vagrant node
• Add a dependency on MySQL
• The database cookbook
• Data bags for sensitive information
• Upload the data bags and converge

3. Complete the LAMP Stack

• Add PHP to the mix
• Create the php_app cookbook
• The MySQL script
• Populate the database
• The PHP homepage
• Review and deploy the LAMP cookbook

4. The Joy of Test Kitchen

• What could we have done differently?
• An introduction to Test Kitchen
• Configuring the .kitchen.yml
• Converge and destroy a Test Instance
• Kitchen verify
• Write an InSpec test

Conclusion

• Next steps