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

Program Duration: 5 Days

Prerequisite Skills:
Linux basic skills ( like working file and directories)

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

Day 1 :

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

Day 2 :

Assignemnet-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

Assignement-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

Day 3 :

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
• vCreating A Base Role

Addons

• Applying recipe locally on Ubuntu server
• Chef Solo vs Chef Zero vs Chef Server

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

• Chef Supermarket
• Using A Private 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

Day 4 :

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

Day 5 :

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