by Yogesh Raheja, Mumshad Mannambeth | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release Date: December 2018 | ISBN: 9781838554040

Learn to automate without scripting using Chef with integrated hands-on labs right in your browserAbout This VideoLectures backed by animated slides makes it simple and easy to understand.In DetailChef Software is a Configuration management and Automate tool used to make your applications and systems easier to deploy. Avoid writing scripts or custom code to deploy and update your applications— automate in a language that approaches plain English.This course introduces a beginner in DevOps to basic fundamentals of Chef with easy to do hands-on exercises that you can practice right in the browser. The course introduces basic use cases of Chef followed by an introduction to Chef Resources, Recipes, Cookbooks, RunLists, Roles, Ohai. Find demos that show how to set up a Chef environment on AWS Cloud platform. Each lecture is accompanied by a set of coding/lab exercises giving the user a hands-on experience in developing Chef code. Finally, test your knowledge with the help of an assignment which will give you real-world experience in solving a problem.All the code and supporting files for this course are available at: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Chef-for-Absolute-Beginners---DevOpsDownloading the example code for this course: You can download the example code files for all Packt video courses you have purchased from your account at http://www.PacktPub.com. If you purchased this course elsewhere, you can visit http://www.PacktPub.com/support and register to have the files e-mailed directly to you.

1. Chapter 1 : Introduction
   • Introduction 00:02:58
   • Configuration Management and Automation 00:09:18
   • Introducing Chef 00:12:01
2. Chapter 2 : Chef Setup
   • Setup Chef 00:04:04
   • Chef Workstation 00:01:29
   • Demo - Create VMs on AWS 00:06:56
   • Demo - Workstation Installation 00:04:02
   • Setup Chef Clients 00:03:20
3. Chapter 3 : Chef Concepts
   • Chef Architecture 00:04:48
   • Chef Resources 00:02:28
   • Chef Resource Documentation Walkthrough 00:02:24
   • Chef DSL 00:04:03
   • Chef Recipe 00:03:54
   • Demo - Chef Recipe 00:12:15
   • Chef Cookbooks 00:05:51
   • Demo - Chef Cookbooks 00:03:33
   • Chef RunLists 00:03:05
   • Demo - Chef RunLists 00:08:17
   • Chef Include Recipe 00:01:01
   • Cookbook Dependencies 00:00:43
   • Demo - Cookbook Dependencies 00:04:54
4. Chapter 4 : Server-Client Mode in Production Environment
   • Server-Client Model 00:04:10
   • Demo - Workstation Connectivity 00:04:47
   • Demo - Setup Chef Clients 00:06:36
   • Demo - Server-Client Model 00:08:14
5. Chapter 5 : Other Topics
   • Extra’s 00:07:02