What this learning path covers

Module 1,Chef Essentials, will take you on a comprehensive tour of Chef's functionality, ranging from core concepts to advanced development. You will be brought up to speed with what's new in Chef and how to set up your own Chef infrastructure for individuals, or small or large teams. Once you have the core components, get to grips with bootstrapping hosts to then develop and apply cookbooks. If you want to fully leverage Chef, this module will show you advanced recipes to handle new types of data providers and resources. By the end of this module, you will be confident in how to manage infrastructure, scale using the cloud, and extend the built-in functionality of Chef itself.

Module 2, Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook Second Edition, will take you on a journey through the many facets of Chef. This module begins with explaining the simple techniques as well as full fledged real-world solutions. By looking at easily digestible examples, you'll be able to grasp the main concepts of Chef, which you'll need for automating your own infrastructure. Instead of wasting time trying to get existing community cookbooks running in your environment, you'll get ready made code examples to get you started. After describing how to use the basic Chef tools, the module shows you how to troubleshoot your work and explains the Chef language. Then, it shows you how to manage users, applications, and your whole cloud infrastructure. The module concludes by providing you additional, indispensable tools and giving you an in-depth look into the Chef ecosystem.

Module 3, Mastering Chef Provisioning, will show you the best practices to describe your entire infrastructure as code. With the help of this module you can expand your knowledge of Chef and implement robust and scalable automation solutions. You can automate and document every aspect of your network, from the hardware to software, middleware, and all your containers. You will become familiar with the Chef's Chef Provisioning tool. You will be able to make a perfect model system where everything is represented as code beneath your fingertips.