Using Databags to Manage User Accounts
Custom Chef Server Indexes Creating and Uploading Data Bags Managing
Automating chef-client Runs
The chef-client Community Cookbook Common Convergence Intervals and Offsets Service
Environments: Development versus Production
Methods for Creating and Assigning Environments Change Control Version Restrictions
Dynamic Search
Chef Server Indices Searching with knife Debugging with Search The
Custom Run-lists with Roles
Bulk Node Management with Roles Role Syntax and Structure Role
Multi-Node Infrastructure Management
Bootstrapping Nodes Querying for Node Details with knife Managing and
Using Community Cookbooks
The Chef Supermarket Wrapper Cookbooks – Dependency Management Recipe Cookbooks
Centralized Management with the Chef Infra Server
Push vs Pull Architectures Using Hosted Chef Chef Infra Server
Chef Workstation Setup
Installing Chef Tooling Locally Text Editor Intellisense
Testing Cookbooks – An Introduction to Test-Kitchen
Configuring Test Kitchen The .kitchen.yml file Deploying Docker Testing Instances
Managing Variables with Templates
File Resources – template, cookbook_file, remote_file Embedded Ruby Templates ERB
Attributes: Data-Driven Cookbooks
User-Defined Node Attributes Platform-Independent Recipes Attribute Precedence
Capturing System Details with Ohai
System Profiling with Ohai How the chef-client gathers data Accessing
Recipes and Cookbooks
Organizing Recipes with Cookbooks Generating and maintaining cookbooks Cookbook components
Chef Resources – The Fundamental Building Blocks
The Resource Domain-Specific Language (DSL) Common Resources – package, file,
An Introduction to Configuration Management
A discussion of traditional scripting Why automate infrastructure? Infrastructure as
