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Development, engineering, and operations \nstaff will learn to use Chef to automate the configuration, deployment, and management of server \ninfrastructure.\n\nParticipants will also learn how to test their configurations. Each of the core units in this course \nhas hands-on exercises to reinforce the material. At the end of the course, students will have a code \nrepository that can be used and modified to solve real business problems.\n\n## History\n\nThe Chef for Beginners workshop contains the first five modules from the [Chef Essentials](https://github.com/chef-training/chef-essentials).\ntraining course and is intended to be instructor-led over a three hour span as opposed to three days like Chef Essentials.\n\n## Learner Requirements\n\nAttendees need a network-enabled laptop with a terminal that supports SSH.\n\n* Windows 7+ through [Putty](http://www.putty.org/) or [Cygwin with OpenSSH](https://www.cygwin.com/).\n\n* Mac OS X 10.11\n\n* Ubuntu 14.04\n\n\nIt’s best that learners have some familiarity and comfort with the following:\n\n* Writing code (of just about any flavor) in a text editor\n* Working on the command line\n* Basic system administration – installing packages, configuring those packages, starting services\n\n## Agenda\n\n1. Introduction\n2. Resources\n3. Cookbooks\n4. chef-client\n5. Testing Cookbooks\n\n## Workstation Setup\n\nThe first series of modules focus on getting learners engaged with the content as quickly as possible. A workstation is \nprovided to the learners.\n\n### Amazon Machine Instance\n\nThis workstation is currently being managed as a Amazon Machine Instance (AMI). This AMI is managed by Chef through the \nTraining AWS Account.\n\n* Essentials - CentOS 6.7 - 5.0.2 (ami-0d4eb560)\n\n\u003e The AMI was generated with [Packer](https://github.com/chef-training/chefdk-fundamentals-image) and adheres to the \nfollowing [policy](https://github.com/chef-training/chefdk-image/blob/master/cookbooks/workstations/recipes/essentials.rb). \nIt is based on a Marketplace AMI so it cannot be made public. If you would like access to this AMI to deliver training \nplease contact [training@chef.io](mailto:training@chef.io) the request that includes your Amazon Account Id.\n\n### Creating the Workstation\n\n\u003e An chef recipe that automates the creation of the workstation can be found in the [ChefDK Image](\nhttps://github.com/chef-training/chefdk-image/blob/master/cookbooks/workstations/recipes/essentials.rb\n) project\n\n* Installation of ChefDK\n\n* Create a user named 'chef' with the password 'chef'\n\n* Ensure the yum package repository is up-to-date\n\n```\n$ yum update -y\n```\n\n* Install editors: vim; emacs; nano.\n\n* Uninstall other tools that they will install: cowsay; tree; and git.\n\n* Install [Docker on CentOS](https://docs.docker.com/engine/installation/centos/)\n\n* Allow Password Authentication\n\n* Disable the iptables service\n\n* Disable SELINUX\n\n* Added an ec2 json hints file (content: `{}`) to `/etc/chef/ohai/hints/ec2.json`\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fbillmeyer%2Fchef-for-beginners-workshop","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fbillmeyer%2Fchef-for-beginners-workshop","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fbillmeyer%2Fchef-for-beginners-workshop/lists"}