Chef Essentials: Mastering the Basics of Config Management

Automate your server configuration and management. Accelerate your career. Master the Chef Essentials

4.25 (564 reviews)

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What you will learn

Understand Chef terminology and concepts

Automate server configuration with Chef recipes and cookbooks

Understand configuration management concepts such as idempotence

Leverage Erubis templates for dynamically configuring servers and applications

Implement attributes and understand precedence

Why take this course?

Are you looking to advance your IT career? Do you want to automate your System Administrator tasks on-prem or in the cloud so you can focus on the value-add problems? Would your organization benefit from faster, standardized, and predictable server automation? Are you trying to transform your legacy IT services into a DevOps model?

Then you need to take this course and start taking advantage of this amazing tool!

The Chef Essentials course will teach you the fundamentals of Chef, including how to install the Chef Development Kit, writing cookbooks and recipes, how to use recipe sub-components, and how to test your recipes locally.

This course includes reference materials and simple examples designed to help you build a solid foundation of Chef and configuration management knowledge. The course is primarily in video lecture format, but also includes quizzes throughout the course to check your comprehension and hands on projects to build real world experience.

It will take you roughly one week to accomplish Chef Essentials, depending on how much time you can dedicate to the course each day. The course is structured in two major sections, an Overview section and a Deep Dive section. The Overview section is designed to demonstrate the power of Chef, explain fundamental concepts, and explain Chef-centric terminology. The Deep Dive section will be comprised of lectures and hands on labs to teach you about:

Cookbooks
Recipes, including dependencies and 'include' statements
Templates
Attributes
Libraries
Troubleshooting

Chef experience can be a differentiator when looking for a new role and make you invaluable in your current position. Chef can automate your server configuration and is a crucial piece of any delivery toolchain. Chef provides the simple, reliable automation you need for configuration management, and this course provides the quickest path to leveraging Chef.

I look forward to you joining my course.

Reviews

André

August 12, 2023

It delivered as I expected and I like the style. I feel that you speak very slowly which is good when I have the patience. It didn't really bothered me since I can speed up when I'm feeling inpatient. I got really useful information out of this and going to keep exploring more. Thank you.

Ciril

April 20, 2023

Good to know the basics. Just Cloud9 has been buy by AWS and it will be better to review this chapter

Matthew

July 28, 2022

Everything was great. The last video shows a black screen for several minutes before playing the conclusion clip again.

William

July 15, 2022

Very good course. Good pace. Instructor was easy to understand and spoke in an even cadence. Instructor also went into enough detail to explain the topics.

Vinoth

December 19, 2021

This course was really concise and the instructor has done a great job in structuring it so well. I wish that the instructor should add another course covering some advanced topics of Chef in the same way. One thing which can be revamped is setting up VM using cloud9 since those instructions are not valid anymore. I had created a VM using AWS and started using it and followed by using an Amazon Linux server.

Andrew

May 16, 2021

This is a good course. It does need to be updated to note that cloud9 is now part of AWS and some of the instructions don't work there. I was able to execute the labs in a ubuntu session running under Windows WSL which worked though I did have to figure out the parameters. I got part way on cloud9 on AWS but was not able to finish.

Nate

January 28, 2021

The course needs to be updated to account for Cloud9 now being part of AWS, but other than that, this was a really great course! Very easy to follow, and concepts were explained well. The quizzes to check for understanding were helpful as well.

William

June 6, 2017

After taking the LinuxAcademy Basic Chef Fluency Badge course, I felt I am missing the foundational concepts of Chef. I originally thought that this course would go a little further, regarding Chef Automate, and Chef Server. But I was still not disappointed because I learned something from this course. Highly recommended!

Alan

May 16, 2017

Very well organized with introduction to new concepts, then good, clear explanations in the lecture, and excellent examples within the labs. The clarifications within the labs is also very clear. Great course for those like me who are new to Chef.

Patrick

January 21, 2017

The instructor does know what he is talking about and what he goes over he does well. However, I believe that there could be ore added to the course to add more value. This being said, you can not argue with the price for value.

Larry

January 20, 2017

It was a good course. I wish that you would have shown more example or labs on configuring systems as Chef is a Configuration Management tool. I was hoping to see more of that.

Stephen

January 16, 2017

Good material - I would prefer going a bit more advanced. Does waste a bit of time at start of course stating and restating obvious and addressing logistics, and not getting to core of chef training quick enough.

Abinov

January 8, 2017

step by step introduction is good. Gave me a good overview to feel empowered to take start using Chef.

Alex

November 8, 2016

Excellent course! Concise and clear, straight to the point giving a great fundamental understanding of Chef. My only suggestion would be maybe to introduce further use cases - even just as a summary (5 minute video or less); Deploying Nginx and managing its config, Custom apps, Docker!

Ben

October 13, 2016

Really awesome intro course. I really appreciate the detail to terminology and the realistic use-cases. This helped clear up common misconceptions about the name of the resource block and helps to demonstrate the robust idempotent possibilities in chef. Would love to see more advanced topics like proper structure of dependent chef cookbooks and setting up the chef server correctly (including environments and roles) .

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