Description

Chef is a very popular automation tool of the infrastructure as code category.

We follow this syllabus for the chef course:

1. Infrastructure as Code
   1. Concept behind IaC
   2. Desired State Configuration Management
   3. Idempotency
2. Chef Basics
   1. Resource
   2. Provider
   3. Chef Agent
   4. Recipe
   5. Cookbooks
   6. Ohai
   7. Run Lists
3. Chef Architecture
   1. Chef Server
   2. Chef Manage
   3. Chef Workstation
   4. Chef Node
4. Chef Installation
   1. Three Server Architecture
   2. Chef-Repo
   3. Bootstrapping
5. Writing Recipes
   1. Syntax
   2. Common Resource Types
   3. Special Resource Types
   4. Variables
   5. Ohai
   6. Conditionals
   7. Loops
6. Project: Recipe to manage users and groups across servers
7. Project: Automate platform independent webserver installations
8. Writing Cookbooks
   1. Create Cookbook Manually
   2. Create Cookbook Automatically
   3. Use Cookbook Files
   4. Use Attributes
   5. Use Templates
9. Project: Recipe to Automate PHP Based CMS Platform
10. Project: Cookbook to Automate Time Management across Servers
11. Advanced Features in Chef
    1. Databags
    2. Search
    3. Environments
    4. Roles
12. Chef Community
    1. Supermarket
    2. Other Chef Products
    3. Best Practices