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Chef Fundamentals: A Recipe for Automating Infrastructure

The Chef-Certified beginner’s guide to developing cookbooks locally and distributing changes with a Chef Server
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(3,271 reviews)
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7.5

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9.1

Popularity

9.4

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The Chef-Certified beginner’s guide to developing cookbooks locally and distributing changes with a Chef Server
Platform: Udemy
Video: 10h 11m
Language: English
Next start: On Demand

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7.5 / 10
This course was last updated on 4/2020.

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9.4 / 10
Video Score: 9.1 / 10
The course includes 10h 11m video content. Courses with more videos usually have a higher average rating. We have found that the sweet spot is 16 hours of video, which is long enough to teach a topic comprehensively, but not overwhelming. Courses over 16 hours of video gets the maximum score.
The average video length is 3 hours 23 minutes of 14 Chef Software courses on Udemy.
Detail Score: 9.5 / 10

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Extra Content Score: 9.5 / 10

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About the course

Are you the only Chef in the kitchen? Is your infrastructure suffering from snowflake servers? Are you sick and tired of provisioning machines by hand every time you need to put out a fire? Configuring infrastructure shouldn’t be painful, it should be a joy.
Chef Fundamentals has been reviewed and approved by the Chef Training team. The Chef team is excited about the partnership with Udemy and looks forward to the development of additional Chef courses. Chef is a platform for the DevOps workflow, and is used to automate and manage it all–infrastructure, run-time environments and applications. The most enduring and transformative companies use Chef to become fast, efficient, and innovative software-driven organizations.

Join Robin Beck as he automates everything in the only Chef-Certified class on Udemy. Learn to combine resources into recipes, recipes into cookbooks, and transform your infrastructure into code. With Chef we’ll learn to use the power of the Ruby language to eloquently describe the state of a system, whether you’re new to automation or have been administering systems since 1992. We’ll learn how to locally configure a server with the Chef Development Kit, then use the power of a Chef Server to distribute your cookbook to one, or a hundred systems.
This fundamentals class will cover the basics of infrastructure as code. Start by learning about Chef architecture and the tools included in the ChefDK (Chef Development Kit). Then learn how to use a Chef Server to distribute your cookbooks to multiple servers as you push your application to production.

What can you learn from this course?

✓ Describe how Configuration Management with Chef is performed.
✓ Be technically savvy in the process of installing and configuring servers in the cloud or in an on-premise datacenter.
✓ Gain an understanding of Chef’s core components, architecture, terminology and have basic fluency with the most commonly used tools.
✓ Be able to utilize and describe Chef terms like Resources, Recipes, Cookbooks, The Chef Server, Roles, Environments, and Data Bags

What you need to start the course?

• Before taking this course, we recommend some prior experience writing code. This can be just about any flavor! You don’t have to be an expert developer to get started with Chef, and you don’t need to be familiar with Ruby.
• Understand how to use a command-line text editor, like Vi, Emacs or Nano to edit files.
• Beginner-level experience navigating a Terminal, such as Powershell or Bash, and using it to perform basic file manipulations
• A basic understanding of system administration, such as what it means to install and configure packages and start services.

Who is this course is made for?

• This course has been designed for DevOps engineers wanting to learn Configuration Management with Chef.
• Operations and Development personnel wanting to become DevOps engineers.

Are there coupons or discounts for Chef Fundamentals: A Recipe for Automating Infrastructure ? What is the current price?

The course costs $15.99. And currently there is a 20% discount on the original price of the course, which was $19.99. So you save $4 if you enroll the course now.
The average price is $15.3 of 14 Chef Software courses. So this course is 5% more expensive than the average Chef Software course on Udemy.

Will I be refunded if I'm not satisfied with the Chef Fundamentals: A Recipe for Automating Infrastructure course?

YES, Chef Fundamentals: A Recipe for Automating Infrastructure has a 30-day money back guarantee. The 30-day refund policy is designed to allow students to study without risk.

Are there any financial aid for this course?

Currently we could not find a scholarship for the Chef Fundamentals: A Recipe for Automating Infrastructure course, but there is a $4 discount from the original price ($19.99). So the current price is just $15.99.

Who will teach this course? Can I trust Robin Beck?

Robin Beck has created 1 courses that got 3,271 reviews which are generally positive. Robin Beck has taught 18,548 students and received a 4.5 average review out of 3,271 reviews. Depending on the information available, we think that Robin Beck is an instructor that you can trust.
Technical Trainer
Robin has spent years working one-on-one with individuals who are trying to create positive change in their relationship with technology. His endless patience with others has been marked by his friends as a borderline character flaw, and has served him greatly in working with children and adults of all ages.
With eight years of teaching experience, Robin has finely-tuned his ability to communicate complex technical information in a relatable way with ease. Starting as a teaching assistant at Fiske Planetarium in Boulder, Colorado, Robin led star talks and gave presentations that were focused on improving people’s relationships with nature and the cosmos, eventually designing shows and curriculum before working as a Lab and Outreach educator.
Robin has completed two B.A.’s in astronomy and physics, and holds a technical certificate from the web development school RefactorU, where he has also served as an educator. Now Robin keeps TechnoTrainer’s workforce moving forward towards excellence.Show moreShow less
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Classbaze Grade®

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Freshness

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Popularity

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Material

Platform: Udemy
Video: 10h 11m
Language: English
Next start: On Demand

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