Building Strategic Influence in Matrix Organizations
This course takes you through all the required ‘recipes’ to configure, deploy, and scale your servers and applications. This course contains easy-to-follow, step-by-step guidelines describing how to solve real world automation challenges.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
Why you shouldn't miss this course
By the end of this course, participants will have the leadership toolkit to shape and steer GenAI portfolios across their organization.
01Have an in-depth understanding of the Chef ecosystem
02Manage server and cloud infrastructure with Chef
03Automate your infrastructure with Chef without errors
04Learn to write better cookbooks, recipes, use plug-ins etc.
05Learn the Chef Language and style
06Evaluating and troubleshooting Cookbook runs
PREREQUISITES
Recommended experience
CURRICULUM
Structured for Strategic Application
Common Chef Terminology (Server, Workstation, Client, Repository etc.)
Servers and Nodes
Chef Configuration Concepts
How to configure Knife
Execute some commands to test connection between knife and workstation
Create organization
Add yourself and node to organization
Create a server and add to organization
Check node details using knife
Node Objects and Search
Check node Details
Environments
Add servers to environments
Create roles
Add Roles to organization
Understanding of Attributes
Creating Custom Attributes
Defining in Cookbooks
Understanding the data bags
Creating and managing the data bags
Creating the data bags using CLI and Chef Console
Sample data bags for Creating Users
RECOMMENDED PARTICIPANT SETUP
This course follows Cognixia's AI-first, hands-on learning model
Access to sanitized process maps, KPI definitions, candidate initiative lists, and basic cost baselines (time, cycle time, error or rework rates)
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