Chef for beginners module 1
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This document outlines a workshop led by Bill Meyer for beginners on using Chef, a configuration management tool. Participants will learn Chef's core components, architecture, and how to automate various infrastructure tasks, including building and testing cookbooks. The workshop will provide hands-on experience using a pre-built virtual workstation with the necessary tools installed.
Chef for beginners module 1
- 1. Chef for Beginners Introduction Slide 1 of 22
- 2. Bill Meyer Sr. Solutions Architect bill@chef.io Slide 2 of 22
- 3. Introduce Yourself Name Current job role Experience with Chef and/or config management Favorite Text Editor Slide 3 of 22
- 4. Expectations Slide 4 of 22
- 5. You will leave this workshop with a basic understanding of Chef's core components, architecture, commonly used tools, and basic troubleshooting methods. Expectations Slide 5 of 22
- 6. You will leave this workshop with a basic understanding of Chef's core components, architecture, commonly used tools, and basic troubleshooting methods. You bring with you your own domain expertise and problems. Chef is a framework for solving those problems. Our job is to teach you how to express solutions to your problems with Chef. Expectations Slide 6 of 22
- 7. After completing this workshop, you should be able to: Use Chef Resources to define the state of your system Write and use Chef recipes and cookbooks Automate testing of cookbooks Workshop Objectives Slide 7 of 22
- 8. Agenda Getting a Workstation Using Resources Building Cookbooks Testing with Test Kitchen Slide 8 of 22
- 9. What can Chef do? Slide 9 of 22
- 10. Chef can... Slide 10 of 22
- 11. ... automate how you build, deploy, and manage your infrastructure. Chef can... Slide 11 of 22
- 12. ... automate how you build, deploy, and manage your infrastructure. ... integrate with cloud-based platforms such as Azure and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud to automatically provision and configure new machines. Chef can... Slide 12 of 22
- 13. So what is Chef? Slide 13 of 22
- 14. Chef is... Slide 14 of 22
- 15. ... a large set of tools that are able to be used on multiple platforms and in numerous configurations. Chef is... Slide 15 of 22
- 16. ... a large set of tools that are able to be used on multiple platforms and in numerous configurations. ... like learning a language. You will reach fluency very fast but it will take practice until you become comfortable. Chef is... Slide 16 of 22
- 17. ... a large set of tools that are able to be used on multiple platforms and in numerous configurations. ... like learning a language. You will reach fluency very fast but it will take practice until you become comfortable. A great way to learn Chef is to use Chef Chef is... Slide 17 of 22
- 18. In this workshop you will use a pre-built virtual workstation with all the necessary tools already installed so you can start using Chef right away. Chef - Lab System Architecture Slide 18 of 22
- 19. SSH Into the Remote Workstation $ ssh <ipaddress> -l chef Slide 19 of 22
- 20. SSH Into the Remote Workstation $ ssh <ipaddress> -l chef or $ ssh chef@<ipaddress> Slide 20 of 22
- 21. Getting a Workstation The chef user has been granted password-less sudoers access. The following software is installed on the remote workstation: Chef DK Docker kitchen-docker gem Slide 21 of 22
- 22. On to Module 2 Slide 22 of 22