The course "Automating Infrastructure - Chef for DevOps" is a comprehensive skill enhancement program designed for developers aiming to become proficient DevOps professionals. This course offers extensive training videos that are segmented into modules, which provide learners with easy-to-understand lab demonstrations, including video lectures, reading material, and quizzes.
Automating Infrastructure - Chef for DevOps
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15 hours to complete
3 weeks at 5 hours a week
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What you'll learn
Interpret knowledge about Fundamentals of Chef with DevOps tools.
Implement setup for Chef Infrastructure using AWS Services
Describe features of Chef-server and Chef-Client
Design and manage Recipes and Cookbooks
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There are 7 modules in this course
Welcome to Automating Infrastructure - Chef for DevOps course. By enrolling in this course, you are taking the first step to kickstarting your career in advanced DevOps field. In the first week of the course. we'll learn the essentials of Chef Fundamentals. This course will help learners to analyze stages of DevOps lifecycle. We will also familiarise with Continuous Deployment and Continuous Integration tools in this week.
What's included
7 videos2 readings2 assignments1 discussion prompt
In the second week of this course, we'll learn about Chef DevOps and explore how Chef can help in DevOps Culture. We'll also describe the working of Chef Architecture. After identifying key Metrics of Chef, we'll end the module by exploring and determining the components of Chef.
What's included
8 videos1 reading2 assignments
In the third week of the course, we'll get an overview of Recipes and Recipes attributes. We'll understand how to organize resources with recipes. We'll also explore cokkbooks and its working. By the end of this week, we'll have information about how to create and manage cookbooks using knife utility.
What's included
12 videos1 reading2 assignments
In the fourth week of the course, we'll learn the concepts of Chef-client and Chef-server in a detailed manner. We'll also explore nodes and its working. y the end of this week, we'll be able to implement the installation of Chef Development Kit on Chef workstation.
What's included
5 videos1 reading2 assignments
In the fifth week of the course, we'll be able to explore information about users, groups, role and their working. We'll demonstrate the working of organization, users, groups and roles in Chef. Also, we'll build a recipe to deploy a local user account from data bags. By the end of this module, we'll be in position to describe Data Bags.
What's included
7 videos1 reading2 assignments
In the sixth week of the course, we'll be able to Illustrate AWS services such as EC2, VPC, Beanstalk, RDS and their working with Chef. We'll demonstrate working of MySQL and WordPress with Chef. By the end of this week,we wil perform Implementation of AWS ECR and ECS with Chef.
What's included
11 videos1 reading2 assignments
In the last week of this course, we'll perform the implementation of MySQL installation. We'll also implement the creation of Cookbooks in WordPress. This module will end with a demonstration of WordPress installation.
What's included
5 videos4 readings3 assignments
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Frequently asked questions
Chef is a configuration management DevOps tool, so the developers who aim to become DevOps professionals can learn this course. This course will provide career growth to developers as many organizations are actively using Chef.
There are a few prerequisites to learn Chef Fundamentals:
- You need to be familiar with IaC (Infrastructure as Code)
- You need to know Linux Command Line Operations
- Clarity of Fundamentals of Cloud Computing
Automating Infrastructure - Chef for DevOps is a skill enhancement course designed for developers who aim to become DevOps Professionals. This course will help learners understand configuration management. It will provide you a better knowledge about DevOps and automation and also will help enhance your DevOps skills. This course aims at developers to achieve DevOps Certifications