Learn to automate without scripting using Chef with integrated hands-on labs right in your browser
Key Features
- Lectures backed by animated slides makes it simple and easy to understand.
Book Description
Chef 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---DevOps
What you will learn
- Automate daily repetitive tasks in your environment with Chef
- Get comfortable with Chef language
- Setup Chef on Cloud environments like AWS
- Use Chef Console to manage Automation
Who this book is for
This course is for absolute beginners in automation, those who wish to automate without coding and with zero scripting knowledge.
