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Understanding of system administration, infrastructure and network protocol communication, Experience with IaC tools in Cloud
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Beginner level
Understanding of system administration, infrastructure and network protocol communication, Experience with IaC tools in Cloud
Introduction to Chef Cookbook and its setup and configuration.
Gain comprehensive understanding of Chef Cookbook
Explore key aspects necessary to become proficient in managing infrastructure as code using Chef
Generate Security, compliance , maintenance and troubleshooting.
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Chef is a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code. Chef automates how infrastructure is configured, deployed, and managed across your network without worrying about its size. Cookbooks are fundamental working units of Chef, which consists of all the details related to working units, having the capability to modify configuration and the state of any system configured as a node on Chef infrastructure. Cookbooks help in configuring the infrastructure with the help of other components like recipes, templates, files etc.
This course is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of Chef Cookbook and covers all the key aspects necessary to become proficient in managing infrastructure as code using Chef. You would gain step-by-step walk through from scratch on how to install and configure Chef. Later in the course, you would understand what are cookbooks, recipes, resources and attributes in Chef, you would also learn how to create cookbooks and write recipes. This course provides 3 hours of training videos which are segmented into modules. The course concepts are easy to understand through lab demonstrations. In order to test the understanding of learners, every module includes Assessments in the form of Quiz and In Video Questions. A mandatory Graded Questions Quiz is also provided at the end of every module. Module 1: Chef Cookbook: Introduction and Setup Module 2: Create and Generate Chef Cookbooks Module 3: Chef Cookbook: Advanced Topics Getting Started with Chef Cookbooks will provide career growth to developers as many organizations are actively using Chef. The target audience for can be any learner: -Who wants to learn configuration management using Chef -Who wants to automate infrastructure management By the end of this course, Learners will be able to : -Introduction to Chef Cookbook and its setup and configuration. -Gain a comprehensive understanding of Chef Cookbook -Explore key aspects necessary to become proficient in managing infrastructure as code using Chef -Generate Security, compliance, maintenance, and troubleshooting. To be successful in this course, you should have a background in system administration, infrastructure, and network protocol communication, Experience with IaC tools in Cloud
Welcome to Week 1 of the Getting Started with Chef Cookbooks course. In this week we will learn about Chef Cookbooks, starting with an overview and introduction to their concept. We will then dive into the installation and configuration of Chef, ensuring a functional setup. By the end of the course, we will explore the process of setting up a Chef infrastructure to effectively manage and control our configurations.
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Welcome to Week 2 of the Getting Started with Chef Cookbooks course. This week will cover important aspects of Chef Cookbooks. We will start by understanding Recipes and Resources, which are key components of Chef Cookbooks. Then, we will delve into Attributes and Templates, which allow for flexible and dynamic configuration. By the end of the course, we will learn how to create a Cookbook using ChefDK, a development kit specifically designed for Chef.
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Welcome to Week 3 of Getting Started with Chef Cookbooks course.This week focuses on testing, validation, and troubleshooting in Chef Cookbooks. You will learn various testing methods, including unit testing, to ensure the reliability of your configurations. Additionally, we will cover security, compliance, maintenance, and troubleshooting strategies. By the end of the week, you will have a solid grasp of these essential aspects of Chef Cookbooks.
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Aspirants who want to enroll for Getting Started with Chef Cookbooks should have an understanding of system administration, infrastructure and network protocol communication.
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