Planning and Installing Chef
By James Bannan
Chef is a robust and highly scalable platform for provisioning and configuring infrastructure. This course will take you through provisioning the Chef server and using it to configure Windows and Linux client servers.
Course info
Rating
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Oct 21, 2015
Duration
1h 29m
Table of contents
Planning for Chef
The Problem of Scaling Server Management
4m
Examine a Sample Chef Recipe
3m
Sign up for Hosted Chef
3m
Look at the Core Components of Chef Server
5m
Installing Chef
Module Overview and Prerequisites
3m
Demo: Deploy Base Environment in Azure with PowerShell
3m
Demo: Deploy Base Environment in Azure with Azure CLI
6m
Install and Configure Chef Server on Ubuntu
6m
Install and Configure Chef Management Console
2m
Install and Configure Chef Reporting
3m
Configuring the Chef Workstation
Bootstrapping Chef Nodes
Description
Course info
Rating
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Oct 21, 2015
Duration
1h 29m
Description
This course delves in to the process of planning for and installing Chef server. We will provision a self-contained lab environment in Azure using Azure Resource Manager (ARM), install and configure an administrative workstation using the Chef Development Kit (ChefDK), and configure client servers using basic Chef recipes and cookbooks, which we will create during the course.
About the author
About the author
James Bannan is a published author and experienced public speaker based in Melbourne, Australia. He is a Microsoft specialist, with a particular focus on Azure infrastructure architecture, development, and automation.
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