Program Overview:
This 2 -day course deploying Chef infrastructure and configure chef client and chef workstation on windows and linux servers

Program Duration: 2 Days

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

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

Module 1: Chef – Overview

• 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 14.04 Server
• SSH to Ubuntu Server
• Install chef-server on Ubuntu 14.04 linux server
• Install chef-manage on chef-server
• Install and configure Chef-Reporting

Module 3: Working 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

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 Ubuntu server ( Hands on lab by students)

• Deploy a Ubuntu 14.04 server
• Register the Ubuntu 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 recipe for package install, service restart
• Create templates to be used in recipe
• Create index.html and log file to be used by recipe

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 : Creating web role and using for Ubuntu server ( Hands on lab by students)

• Understand and create web role
• Assign web role for chef node
• Validate chef-role is getting assigned to Ubuntu 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

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