Getting Started with Chef Cookbooks
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Getting Started with Chef Cookbooks at Coursera Overview
Duration | 6 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Getting Started with Chef Cookbooks at Coursera Highlights
- Flexible deadlines Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
- Shareable Certificate Earn a Certificate upon completion
- 100% online Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
- Coursera Labs Includes hands on learning projects. Learn more about Coursera Labs External Link
- Beginner Level Understanding of system administration, infrastructure and network protocol communication, Experience with IaC tools in Cloud
- Approx. 6 hours to complete
- English Subtitles: English
Getting Started with Chef Cookbooks at Coursera Course details
- Chef is a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code. Chef automates how infrastructure is configured, deployed, and managed across your network without worrying about its size. Cookbooks are fundamental working units of Chef, which consists of all the details related to working units, having the capability to modify configuration and the state of any system configured as a node on Chef infrastructure. Cookbooks help in configuring the infrastructure with the help of other components like recipes, templates, files etc.
- This course is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of Chef Cookbook and covers all the key aspects necessary to become proficient in managing infrastructure as code using Chef. You would gain step-by-step walk through from scratch on how to install and configure Chef. Later in the course, you would understand what are cookbooks, recipes, resources and attributes in Chef, you would also learn how to create cookbooks and write recipes.
- This course provides 3 hours of training videos which are segmented into modules. The course concepts are easy to understand through lab demonstrations. In order to test the understanding of learners, every module includes Assessments in the form of Quiz and In Video Questions. A mandatory Graded Questions Quiz is also provided at the end of every module.
- Module 1: Chef Cookbook: Introduction and Setup
- Module 2: Create and Generate Chef Cookbooks
- Module 3: Chef Cookbook: Advanced Topics
- Getting Started with Chef Cookbooks will provide career growth to developers as many organizations are actively using Chef. The target audience for can be any learner:
- -Who wants to learn configuration management using Chef
- -Who wants to automate infrastructure management
- By the end of this course, Learners will be able to :
- -Introduction to Chef Cookbook and its setup and configuration.
- -Gain a comprehensive understanding of Chef Cookbook
- -Explore key aspects necessary to become proficient in managing infrastructure as code using Chef
- -Generate Security, compliance, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
- To be successful in this course, you should have a background in system administration, infrastructure, and network protocol communication, Experience with IaC tools in Cloud
Getting Started with Chef Cookbooks at Coursera Curriculum
Chef Cookbook: Introduction and Setup
Overview of this Course
Chef Cookbook_Part 01
Chef Cookbook_Part 02
Setup and Configuration
Chef Installation and Configuration_Part 01
Chef Installation and Configuration_Part 02
Chef Installation and Configuration_Part 03
Chef Installation and Configuration_Part 04
Course Outline
Chef Cookbook: Introduction and Setup Overview
Introduction to Chef Cookbook Knowledge Test
Setup and Configuration Knowledge Test
Chef Cookbook: Introduction and Setup Assessment
Create and Generate Chef Cookbooks
Recipes and Resources_Part 01
Recipes and Resources_Part 02
Generating Chef Cookbook_Part 01
Generating Chef Cookbook_Part 02
Generating Chef Cookbook_Part 03
Attributes and Templates
Creating Cookbook using ChefDK_Part 01
Creating Cookbook using ChefDK_Part 02
Creating Cookbook using ChefDK_Part 03
Files and Directories
Chef Permissions
Create and Generate Chef Cookbooks Overview
Recipes and Resources Knowledge Test
Attributes and Templates Knowledge Test
Create and Generate Chef Cookbooks Assessment
Chef Cookbook: Advanced Topics
Testing and Validation
Chef Unit Testing Template
Chef Unit Testing_Part 01
Chef Unit Testing_Part 02
Advanced Topics_Part 01
Advanced Topics_Part 02
Security and Compliance_Part 01
Security and Compliance_Part 02
Generating RSA Key-pair
Maintenance and Troubleshooting_Part 01
Maintenance and Troubleshooting_Part 02
Chef Cookbook: Advanced Topics Overview
Key Takeaways of the course
Course Conclusion
Testing and Validation Knowledge Test
Security , Compliance and Troubleshooting Knowledge Test
Chef Cookbook: Advanced Topics Assessment
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