Module 1 of Chef for Beginners as presented at Optum-Chef DevOps Transformation Day on April 21st, 2016

1. Chef for Beginners
Introduction
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2. Bill Meyer
Sr. Solutions Architect
bill@chef.io
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3. Introduce Yourself
Name
Current job role
Experience with Chef and/or config management
Favorite Text Editor
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4. Expectations
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5. You will leave this workshop with a basic
understanding of Chef's core components,
architecture, commonly used tools, and basic
troubleshooting methods.
Expectations
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6. You will leave this workshop with a basic
understanding of Chef's core components,
architecture, commonly used tools, and basic
troubleshooting methods.
You bring with you your own domain expertise and
problems. Chef is a framework for solving those
problems. Our job is to teach you how to express
solutions to your problems with Chef.
Expectations
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7. After completing this workshop, you should be able to:
Use Chef Resources to define the state of your system
Write and use Chef recipes and cookbooks
Automate testing of cookbooks
Workshop Objectives
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8. Agenda
Getting a Workstation
Using Resources
Building Cookbooks
Testing with Test Kitchen
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9. What can Chef do?
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10. Chef can...
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11. ... automate how you build, deploy, and manage your
infrastructure.
Chef can...
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12. ... automate how you build, deploy, and manage your
infrastructure.
... integrate with cloud-based platforms such as Azure
and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud to automatically
provision and configure new machines.
Chef can...
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13. So what is Chef?
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14. Chef is...
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15. ... a large set of tools that are able to be used on
multiple platforms and in numerous configurations.
Chef is...
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16. ... a large set of tools that are able to be used on
multiple platforms and in numerous configurations.
... like learning a language. You will reach fluency
very fast but it will take practice until you become
comfortable.
Chef is...
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17. ... a large set of tools that are able to be used on
multiple platforms and in numerous configurations.
... like learning a language. You will reach fluency
very fast but it will take practice until you become
comfortable.
A great way to learn Chef is to use Chef
Chef is...
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18. In this workshop you will use a pre-built virtual
workstation with all the necessary tools already
installed so you can start using Chef right away.
Chef - Lab System Architecture
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19. SSH Into the Remote Workstation
$ ssh <ipaddress> -l chef
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20. SSH Into the Remote Workstation
$ ssh <ipaddress> -l chef
or
$ ssh chef@<ipaddress>
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21. Getting a Workstation
The chef user has been granted password-less sudoers access.
The following software is installed on the remote workstation:
Chef DK
Docker
kitchen-docker gem
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22. On to Module 2
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