Come join me next week in LA for the Chef Windows Fundamentals class! Use the promo code DAILYSPECIAL for 10% off the cost.
Two day course agenda:
- Overview of Chef
- Workstation setup
- Bootstrapping your first node
- Dissecting your first Chef run
- Introducing the node object
- Using Chef resources to build your first cookbook
- Using node and cookbook attributes and templates to make your recipes dynamic
- Adding cookbook dependencies to leverage existing functionality
- Experimenting with template variables, notifications, and controlling idempotency
- Using recipe inclusion to keep your recipes easy to read and manage
- Bringing server-side resources into your recipes with data bags and search
- Defining roles to group similar functionality
- Defining environments to use the same structural configuration across operational environments (like development, Q/A, and production)
- Using Chef Supermarket and community cookbooks
- Resources to further your exploration of Chef