Chef Intermediate Topics - Online
Summary
Chef Intermediate Topics is an instructor-led course that first introduces you to test-driven development (TDD) and then shows you how to extend your cookbooks with custom resources and Ohai plugins.
Description
Building cookbooks with tests will increase the speed at which you work by giving you consistent feedback throughout the entire cookbook development process. Extending your cookbooks with custom resources will increase clarity within your recipes and provide resources that are portable to other cookbooks. Ohai plugins gather data from your nodes that will aid in more dynamic recipes and extensive reporting.
In this course, you will learn how to confidently refactor and expand a cookbook through explanation, demonstration, practice, and discussion. At the end of the course, you will have created a code repository that can be applied to solve the unique challenges you face managing your infrastructure.
Two day course agenda:
- Introduction
- Why write tests? Why is that hard?
- Writing a test first
- Refactoring cookbooks with tests
- Faster feedback with unit testing
- Testing resources in recipes
- Refactoring to attributes
- Refactoring to multiple platforms
- Approaches to extending resources
- Why use custom resources
- Creating a custom resource
- Refining a custom resource
- Ohai
- Ohai plugins
- Creating an Ohai plugin
- Tuning Ohai
To take this course, you should have completed Chef Fundamentals or Chef Essentials or have comparable work experience. You should have working knowledge of core Chef concepts and resources.
Workstation Requirements:
You will need a wi-fi enabled workstation with admin/root access on the machine for class. You will need the ability to remotely log into the virtual machines provided in class.
Upcoming Classes
Online
Instructor-led online training
| Location | Oct 2020 | Nov 2020 | Dec 2020 | Jan 2021 | Feb 2021 | Mar 2021 |
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| US Central - Online |
Dec 10 – Dec 11 |
Public Training
US Central - Online
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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM CST$ 995.00 USD $ 895.00 USD before Thursday, November 26, 2020 9:00 AM CST.
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Customer Comments
Class was excellent, and the Instructor was even better! Robin Beck is the best!
I will recommend this class to my organization as one of the more complete solutions to on boarding new Chef users.
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I don't usually like online training, but this training was great and Eric is really good, well-organized, and in control. The way he engaged each participants is amazing, and how he troubleshoot issues.
Robin Beck provided an excellent training: he was very knowledgeable and held a very comprehensive two day training session!
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Even though I've been using Chef for three years, I found this class immensely useful; not only did it allow me to examine and compare my current practices to those presented in the training, but I learned several new techniques for using Chef tools.