This is a hands-on tutorial that will cover the basics you need to know about how to use Chef for system and infrastructure management. We’ll get you started automating your infrastructure, then take a look at some of the next steps you’ll take on your journey.
Hands-on exercises throughout the tutorial will reinforce the material discussed. The agenda will cover:
Overview of Chef
Describing desired configuration with Chef resources
Describing infrastructure policies using recipes
Creating a sandbox for testing infrastructure policies
Write tests to automatically verify system state
Introducing the Chef Server
Further resources and references