Chef Advanced

  • Program Overview:  This is a 5 -day course  on  deploying  Chef infrastructure and configure chef client and chef workstation on windows and linux servers

     

  • Module 1: Chef – Overview

    • Devops Big-Picture
    • Devops Tools – SCM,CI/CD, Configuration management tool introduction
    • Where chef fits in entire devops culture/tools
    • Infrastructure-As-A-Code
    •  Chef Components – 10000 feet overview
      • Chef Server
      • Hosted Chef Server
      • Chef Development kit
      • Chef Nodes
      • Recipes
      • Cookbooks
      • Chef Analytics
      • Chef Push job server

     

    Module 2: Creating your own Chef server- Install and configure   ( Hands on lab by students)

    • Deploy Ubuntu 16.04 Server
    • SSH to Ubuntu Server
    • Install chef-server on Ubuntu 16.04 linux server
    • Install chef-manage on chef-server
    • Install and configure Chef-Reporting

     

    Assignment 01 : Creating your own Chef server- Install and configure  on RHEL 7 ( Hands on lab by students)

    • Deploy Ubuntu RHEL-7 Server
    • SSH to RHEL-7 Server
    • Install chef-server on RHEl-7 linux server
    • Install chef-manage on chef-server on RHEL
    • Install and configure Chef-Reporting RHEL

     

    Module 3: Working on hosted chef server   ( Hands on lab by students)

    •  Create a user account on hosted chef server
    •  Create organization on hosted chef server
    •  Download chef-starter kit

     

    Module 4: Install and configure Chef-Workstation on ubuntu  ( Hands on lab by students)

    •  Deploy a Ubuntu 14.04 server
    •  Ssh to Ubuntu server
    • Install and configure Chef development kit
    • Configure knife to interact with your own Chef-server
    • Configure knife to interact with your Hosted Chef-server
    • Configure SSL based connection to chef server

     

    Assignment-02 :  Install and configure Chef-Workstation on RHEL ( Hands on lab by students)

    • Deploy a RHEL 7 server
    •  Ssh to RHEL 7 server
    • Install and configure Chef development kit
    • Configure knife to interact with your own Chef-server
    • Configure knife to interact with your Hosted Chef-server
    • Configure SSL based connection to chef server

     

    Module 5: Install and configure Chef-Workstation on Windows 7  ( Hands on lab by students)

    • Install and configure Chef development kit
    • Setup environment variables
    • Configure knife to interact with your own Chef-server
    • Configure knife to interact with your Hosted Chef-server
    • Configure SSL based connection to chef server

     

    Module 6 : Register a chef-Node running Ubuntu server  ( Hands on lab by students)

    •  Deploy a Ubuntu 14.04 server
    •  Register the Ubuntu server under chef server management

     

    Assignment -03 : Register a Node running RHEL server  ( Hands on lab by students)

    •  Deploy a RHEL 7 server
    •  Register the RHEL server under chef server management

     

    Module 7 : Create a cookbook for  Ubuntu server  ( Hands on lab by students)

    • Create a new cookbook for apache2 installation on Ubuntu server
    • Write package resource type in recipe to install apache2
    • Write service resource type in recipe to enable and restart apache2
    • Write file resource type in recipe to create new files on node with content
    • Create templates to be used in recipe – to push templates to node
    • Create index.html and log file to be used by recipe
    • Write cookbook_file resource type

     

    Module 8 : Creating dependency cookbook for  Ubuntu server  ( Hands on lab by students)

    •  Create a new cookbook for OS update installation on Ubuntu server
    •  Write recipe for update of Operating system
    •  Edit metadata.rb file to include dependency for apache2 cookbook

     

    Module 9 : Apply  Apache2 cookbook chef-node( Ubuntu server)  ( Hands on lab by students)

    •  Attach apache2 runlist to chef Ubuntu node
    • Run chef-client on the node
    • Test if you the recipe is applied and working as desired

     

    Assignment 04 : Create a cookbook for  RHEL 7 server  ( Hands on lab by students)

    • Create a new cookbook for HTTPD  installation on RHEL 7
    • Write package resource type in recipe to install HTTPD
    • Write service resource type in recipe to enable and restart HTTPD
    • Write file resource type in recipe to create new files on node with content
    • Create templates to be used in recipe – to push templates to node
    • Create index.html and log file to be used by recipe
    • Write cookbook_file resource type

     

    Assignment-05: Creating dependency cookbook for  RHEL-server  ( Hands on lab by students)

    •  Create a new cookbook for OS update installation on RHEL server
    •  Write recipe for update of Operating system
    •  Edit metadata.rb file to include dependency for HTTPD cookbook

     

    Assignment-06 :  Apply  HTTPD cookbo0k chef-node( RHEL server)  ( Hands on lab by students)

    • Attach HTTPD runlist to chef RHEL Node
    • Run chef-client on the node
    • Test if you the recipe is applied and working as desired

     

    Chef Environments

     

    • What Are Environments And Why Do They Matter?
    • Creating And Configuring Environments ( Production and test environments)
    • Creating A Second Version Of Our WebServer Cookbook
    • Deploying To Different Environments
    • Viewing And Deleting Environments With Knife

     

    Roles

     

    • What Are Roles?
    • Creating A Web Server Role
    • Building A Simple MySQL Cookbook For A Role
    • Creating A DB Server Role
    • Creating A Base Role

     

    Addons

     

     

    Module 10 : Register a chef-Node Windows 2012 server  ( Hands on lab by students)

    •  Deploy a Windows server 2012
    •  Register the Windows server under chef server management

    Moduel 10.A Chef Supermarket

     

    Module 11 : Create a cookbook for  Windows 2012 server  ( Hands on lab by students)

    •  Download a community cookbook for IIS (web-server) Installation on windows server 2012
    •  Run cookbook on windows server
    •  Validate web server is installed on windows 2012 server

     

    Module 12:  Create a  load balacner cookbook  ( Hands on lab by students)

    • Create a new cookbook for load balancer creation
    • Bootstrap 2 web server nodes
    • Bootstrap a load balancer node
    • Write package resource type in  recipe
    • Write file resource type in recipe
    •  Upload to cookbook to chef server
    • Attach runlist to a ubutnu node
    • Run chef-client and verify load balancer is created and able server traffic web sever

     

     Module 13:  Create a cookbook for  user and group for linux  ( Hands on lab by students)

    • Create a new cookbook for user and group
    • Write user resource type in  recipe
    • Write file resource type in recipe
    • Write group resource type in recipe
    • Upload to cookbook to chef server
    • Attach runlist to a ubutnu node
    • Run chef-client and verify user and groups are created

     

     

    Module 14 : Databags

     

    • What Are Data Bags?
    • Creating User And sudo Group Data Bags
    • Building A Recipe To Deploy Local User Accounts From Data Bags

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Module 15:  Create a cookbook if conditional statements  ( Hands on lab by students)

    • Create a new cookbook for web server
    • Write three recipes
      • Recipe 1 : to install apache on Ubuntu
      • Recipe 2: to install httpd on RHEL
      • Recipe 3 : if conditional statements to ensure runs right recipe based node OSfamily
    • Upload to cookbook to chef server
    • Attach runlist to a ubutnu node
    • Run chef-client and verify  execution is correct

     

     

     

    Module 16 : Nodes and Search

    • Node Object
    • Working With Ohai and Node Attributes
    • knife Search

     

    Module 17 : Understanding Docker
    Module 17.1 – Module Introduction
    Module 17 .2 – What is Virtualization
    Module 17.3   what are Containers
    Module 17.4 : Containerization and virtualization differences
    Module 17.5  :  Case study : 100 developer environment
    Module 17.6 : difference between win and linux containers
    Module 17.7 : Docker ecosystem and components
    Module 18 : Installing Docker
    18.1 : Module Introduction
    18.2 – Installing Docker on ubuntu 16.04 server
    18.3- Install Docker on Windows 2016 server
    18.4 Install Docker Toolbox on windows 7-8-10
    Module 19 : Containers On Ubuntu Docker host
    19.1 : Module Introduction
    19.2 : Deploy ,Login, exit container
    19.3: List,Start, Stop, restart containers
    19.4 where containers are stored
    19.5 : working with container hostnames
    19.6  working on multiple containers
    19.7  Container stats and inspect
    19.8 Container networking
    19.9 Deleting containers

    Module 20  :  Kitchen

    • Deploy a Ubuntu server
    • Deploy chef development kit
    • Deploy Docker
    • Create chef cookbook of apaache2
    • Write recipe in cookbook for apache2 install start and push index.html
    • Kitchen create  with docker provisioner
    • Kitchen converge
    • Kitchen destroy
    • Kitchen test

  • Deploy your own chef server on RHEL and Ubuntu

    Deploy chef workstation on RHEL,Ubuntu and windows

    Bootstrap WIn 2012 server, ubuntu , and rhel servers

    write recipes for web deployment

    Docker containers

    kitchen test

  • Targeted for Cloud engineers, Developers ,operations engineer ,Centre of excellence team,  window  server administrators, Unix/Linux administrator, Storage admins, network administrators , Virtualization administrators

  • Duration : 5 days

    Pricing : email us to sales@thecloudenabled.com