Managing thousands of servers in your infrastructure is extremely complex. In this course, Deploying Chef Cookbooks, you will gain the ability to automate the management of your servers using Chef Server. First, you will learn to bootstrap servers running Linux and Windows. Next, you will discover how to organize nodes using roles, environments, and policies. Additionally, you will explore how to automate the provisioning of new servers. When you are finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge of Chef Server needed to automate the management of your infrastructure.
Author Name: Jake Watkins
Author Description:
Jake Watkins is a software developer and consultant with 23 years of industry experience. He focuses on the Microsoft platform, DevOps, Cloud and container technologies. He has authored several articles for magazines and presents to .net user groups.

Table of Contents

• Course Overview
  1min
• Overview and Setup
  13mins
• Uploading Cookbooks to Chef Server
  13mins
• Setting up Environments, Roles, and Policies
  28mins
• Setting up and Bootstrapping Nodes
  26mins
• Bootstrapping a Windows Node
  10mins
• Using the ‘Knife’ Command
  15mins
• Performing a Chef Client Run
  16mins
• Creating Lone Wolf Nodes with Chef Solo
  6mins