OVERVIEW
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)

INTERESTED IN THIS COURSE?
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Speak with a Cognixia specialist about enrollment options, custom cohorts for your leadership team, or tailored delivery formats for your organization.

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Available in 5 delivery formats globally
Volume pricing for teams of 10+
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WHY COGNIXIA
Why Cognixia for This Course

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Mapped Official Learning
Leadership
Equip enterprise leaders to drive culture, skills, policy, and operating-model change required for sustainable Generative AI adoption at scale.
In-Person Workshop, Virtual Instructor-Led
Applied
Enterprise-grade security, governance, and Responsible AI controls to protect, govern, and operate GenAI and agentic systems safely at scale.
In-Person Workshop, Virtual Instructor-Led
Applied
Build portable, enterprise-grade GenAI systems that run consistently across Databricks, AWS, and Google Vertex AI—without vendor lock-in, quality drift, or governance gaps.
In-Person Workshop, Virtual Instructor-Led
Applied
Systematic testing, evaluation, and quality engineering frameworks for validating GenAI and agentic AI systems at enterprise scale.
In-Person Workshop, Virtual Instructor-Led
Applied
Production-grade GenAIOps and LLMOps practices to deploy, monitor, evaluate, and govern enterprise-scale LLM and agentic applications with reliability and control.
In-Person Workshop, Virtual Instructor-Led
Applied
Design, build, evaluate, and operate production-grade agentic AI systems with multi-agent orchestration, tool integration, and enterprise-grade safety controls.
In-Person Workshop, Virtual Instructor-Led

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of the future

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