Chef for the Absolute Beginners

What’s in this course?

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 setup 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.

What is so special about THIS course?

Lectures backed by animated slides makes it simple and easy to understand. This is the only course that provides integrated lab environments with coding exercises where you can practice developing Chef code right in your browser.

Analogy based Explanation

Complex concepts are made simple with explanations based on Analogies and Animation. This will ensure the concepts stick to your mind. Check out the first few lectures!

Course Structure:

– Lectures

– Demos

– Quizzes

– Assignment

Course Contents:

Introduction to Automation
- Understand automation concepts such as Declarative and Imperative Programming Patterns, Idempotency, Convergence,
Introduction to Chef
Setting up Chef
- Set up Chef Workstation and Clients on AWS
Hosted Chef Server Setup
Chef Architecture
Chef Concepts
- Resources
- Recipes
- Cookbooks
- RunLists
- Roles
- Ohai
- Environments

What is Chef?

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.

Legal Notice:

Chef® is a registered trademarks of Chef Software Inc. in the United States and other countries. This course is not certified, accredited, affiliated with, nor endorsed by Chef Software Inc.

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What our students say

I'm not a security specialist, but I have realized that the course explains very well every topic and you can use the labs in every lesson to practice. It's a hard certification but using this course I could learn every element step by step and test myself if I was ready using the exam simulators, and I was great because the simulators are very close to a real exam! using this course I got the certification in my first attempt!

Thank you so much Mumshad Mannambeth for the awesome course, I couldn't find better than yours. These courses are well designed with awesome practice labs and have more than the required content to learn and pass the Kubernetes exams. Not sure how you are managing them with these much of low cost.

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Thanks KodeKloud for amazing Kodekloud Engineer site ! You are guys the future of IT education ! Special thanks for Mumshad Mannambeth for the best Kubernetes training and amazing KodeKloud labs.

About the instructor

Mumshad Mannambeth

Founder of KodeKloud | an IT Consultant | Certified Kubernetes Administrator

Mumshad is passionate about sharing his knowledge and teaches over 600,000+ students worldwide. He believes the best way to learn is to learn by doing and in a fun way. He has authored multiple courses on DevOps and Cloud & Automation technologies. Mumshad’s courses focus on providing students with an interactive and hands-on experience in learning new technology that makes it fun & exciting.

About the instructor

Yogesh Raheja DevOps, Automation & Cloud coach and Consultant

Yogesh Raheja is a certified DevOps and cloud expert with a decade of IT experience. He has expertise in technologies such as OS, source code management, build & release tools, continuous integration/deployment/delivery tools, containers, configuration management tools, monitoring, logging tools, and public/private clouds. He loves to share his technical expertise with audience worldwide at various forums, conferences, webinars, blogs, and LinkedIn. He has written books on IT automation named “Effective DevOps with AWS”, “Automation with Puppet 5” and “Automation with Ansible” which has been published by “John & Wiley” and “Packt Publisher”. He has also reviewed some of the DevOps books for multiple Publishers.