Learning Chef

1. Configuration Management and Chef
-What Is Configuration Management?
-Why You Need a Configuration Management Tool to Automate IT
-What Is Chef?
-Why Chef Might Be a Good Tool for Your Enterprise
-Where Do We Go From Here?

2. Configure Your Chef Development Environment
-Install a Programmer’s Text Editor
-Chef Development Tools
-Install the Chef Development Tools on Linux
-Install the Chef Development Tools on Mac OS X
-Install the Chef Development Tools on Windows
-Summary

3. Ruby and Chef Syntax
-Overview of Ruby
-Ruby Syntax and Examples
-Chef Syntax and Examples

4. Write Your First Chef Recipe
-Create a Directory Structure for Your Code
-Write Your First Chef Recipe
-Verify Your First Chef Recipe
-Examine hello.rb
-Recipes Specify Desired Configuration
-To Uninstall, Specify What Not to Do
-Summary

5. Manage Sandbox Environments with Test Kitchen
-Installing Vagrant and VirtualBox
-Host versus Guest
-Introducing Test Kitchen
-Spinning Up Your First Virtual Machine
-YAML Overview
-Test Kitchen Configuration with .kitchen.yml
-Summary

6. Manage Nodes with Chef Client
-What Is a Node?
-Create a New Sandbox Environment for a Node
-Installing Chef Client with Test Kitchen
-Your First Chef-Client Run
-Chef Client Modes
-Ohai
-Accessing Node Information
-Summary

7. Cookbook Authoring and Use
-Your First Cookbook: Message of the Day
-Your First Cookbook: Message of the Day (Chef Development Kit)
-Introducing the Cookbook_file Resource
-Your First Cookbook: Message of the Day (Chef Client)
-Introducing the Cookbook_file Resource
-Performing Your First Converge
-Validate Your Results
-Anatomy of a Chef Run
-Cookbook Structure
-The Four Resources You Need to Know
-Apache Cookbook: A Step-By-Step Primer for Creating a Cookbook
-Summary