Learn And Understand Chef: The Complete Guide

Welcome to this course: Learn And Understand Chef - The Complete Guide. Chef is a configuration management tool that lets you automate your more cumbersome IT infrastructure processes and control a large network of computers (and virtual machines) from one master server. Chef provides tools to manage systems at scale.  This means that building, rebuilding, configuration, and scaling to meet your customer's needs is possible in just a few minutes in a real-time environment. This course takes you on a comprehensive tour of Chef's functionality, ranging from its core features to advanced development.

In this course, you'll learn:

• Get familiar with the Chef ecosystem and its associated components

• Install all the components of Chef, including troubleshooting instructions

• Model your infrastructure using Chef

• Test your cookbooks with Test Kitchen

• Learn How to Create Custom Ohai

• Explore various aspects of the Chef API

• Extend the functionalities of Chef

At the end of the course, you will be so well-versed with Chef that you'll be able to explore some fun uses of Chef, which will allow for better productivity. So let's get started.