Chef Training

Training - http://www.scmgalaxy.com/events/index.html

Day 1:

• What Is Configuration Management?
  
• Why You Need a Configuration Management Tool to Automate IT
  
• What Is Chef?
  
• Why Chef Might Be a Good Tool for Your Enterprise
  
• Where Do We Go From Here?
• Chef Development Tools
  • Install and Configuration Chef Development Tools on Windows
  • Install and Configuration Chef Development Tools on Linux
• Overview of Ruby
  
• Ruby Syntax and Examples
  
• Chef Syntax and Examples
  
• Working with Knife
  
• Writing First Chef Recipe
  
• Chef and Its Terminology
• Attributes
• Metadata
• Recipes
• Resources
• Templates
• Definitions
• Recipes
• Writing recipes
• Cookbook Dependencies
• Controlling Impotency
• Notifications
• Template Variables

Day 2:

• Cookbooks
  
• Using Cookbooks
  
• Windows - IIS, MSI, Exe, Zip files, Tomcat,
  
• Linux – RPM, Shell Script, Yum Repos,
  
• Common – SVN, Vagrant, Test Kitchen
  
• Introducing Vagrant & Virtualbox
  
• Introducing Test Kitchen
  
• Spinning up your first Virtual Machine
  
• Introducing OpsCode
• Developing a Cookbooks
  • Developing Your First Cookbook
  • Writing a Recipe
  • Creating the Index File
  • Changing the Metadata
  • Uploading the Cookbook
  • Running the Cookbook
  • Add an Attribute
  • Add a Resource to the Default Recipe
  • Add the Template File
  • Uploading and Running the Cookbook
  • Using Environments
• Modeling your infrastructure
  • Roles
  • Implementing a role
  • Determining which recipes you need
  • Applying recipes to roles
  • Mapping your roles to nodes
  • Environments
  • Organizing your configuration data

Day 3:

• Cloud Provisioning Using Chef
  • Provisioning Using Vagrant and Chef
  • Providers and Provisioners
  • Installing Vagrant
  • Configuring Vagrant
  • Vagrant Provisioning Using Chef
  • AWS and Chef Provisioning Using Vagrant
  • Provisioning Using Knife
• Troubleshooting and Debugging
  • Chef Troubleshooting and Debugging
  • Debugging Chef Client Run
  • Debugging Recipes Using Logs
  • Debugging Recipes Using Chef Shell
  • Troubleshooting Chef Client
• Recipe Inclusion
  
• Data Bags
  
• Search Roles
  
• Configuring Services like Apache
• Deployment using chef
  • Looking at your application deployment cookbook
  • Deployment using zip/tar files. E.g: Apache Tomcat deployment and configured as service.
  • Windows - Configuring Services like IIS
  • Dependencies Management
• Integrating with the Cloud
  
  • Amazon EC2
    
  • Rackspace Cloud