Working with Chef Software Course

Course Summary

The Working with Chef training course is designed to explore Cookbook development for Chef.

The course begins with a review of both Ruby and Chef concepts. It then transitions into an examination of building Chef Cookbooks. The course concludes with an examination and review of Cookbooks.

Purpose

Learn how to write cookbooks for Chef.

Audience

Dev Ops engineers need to automated build and deployment processes using Chef.

Role

DevOps Engineer - Software Developer

Skill Level

Introduction

Style

Learning Spikes - Workshops

Duration

3 Days

Related Technologies

Ruby on Rails

Chef

CI/CD

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Productivity Objectives:

Describe the advantages of using Cookbooks with Chef
Write a simple Cookbook
Create a Cookbook to manage a Hadoop cluster
Identify processes / procedures during the build
Deploy process that are good Cookbook candidates
Apply common best practices to Cookbook development

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Project-focused demos and labs using your tool stack and environment, not some canned "training room" lab.
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What You'll Learn

In the Working with Chef training course, you'll learn:

Ruby Primer (enough to understand reading Chef code)
- Basic Syntax
- Data structures used in Chef
- Hash
- Array
- Blocks
Chef Refresher
- What Chef provides
- Cookbooks
Local Chef Cookbook Development
- Vagrant
Running Chef
- Chef Server/Client
- Chef Solo
Building a Basic Cookbook
- Parts of a Cookbook
- Recipes
- Attributes
- Templates / Files
- Example: NTP
- Example: Resolv
Building a more Complicated Cookbook
- Chef node customization
- Environments
- Roles
- Nodes
- Data Bags (Encrypted+)
- Other Chef resources
- Multiple cookbooks together
- Dependency management
- Cookbook Metadata
Cookbook Patterns and Practices
- Application vs Library Cookbooks
- Resources best practices
Chef Utilization to Manage a Hadoop cluster
Custom Resources
- Libraries/definitions
- LightWeight Resource providers
- MCOM Cookbooks review