Learning Chef

Learn how to use Chef, a powerful platform that transforms your infrastructure into code, to simplify and automate configuration management.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know
• My lab environment

1. Getting Started with Chef

• What is configuration management?
• Configuration management platforms
• What is Chef?
• Install the Chef development kit (ChefDK)
• Provision a centos instance with Vagrant
• Your first Chef recipe

2. From Recipes to Cookbooks

• Resources and recipes
• Test and repair
• Organize recipes with cookbooks
• The Apache cookbook
• Apply cookbooks and include_recipe
• Ruby and resources
• Ohai – I'm the node object
• Templates and embedded Ruby

3. The Chef Server

• The benefits of using a Chef server
• Get started with hosted Chef
• Provision nodes with AWS
• Bootstrap a node
• Test deployments with Kitchen

4. Going Full Scale

• Manage multiple nodes
• Chef Supermarket
• Wrapper cookbooks
• Resolve dependencies with Berkshelf
• Deploy the haproxy cookbook
• Server artifacts: Roles, environments, data bags, and demo

Conclusion

• Next steps