Automating Infrastructure - Chef for DevOps (Coursera)

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Automating Infrastructure - Chef for DevOps (Coursera)

The course "Automating Infrastructure - Chef for DevOps" is a comprehensive skill enhancement program designed for developers aiming to become proficient DevOps professionals. This course offers extensive training videos that are segmented into modules, which provide learners with easy-to-understand lab demonstrations, including video lectures, reading material, and quizzes.

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These modules are divided into seven lessons, and assessments are provided to validate the knowledge checks of learners. Hands-on lab assessments are also available to reinforce learners' knowledge.
As automation tools such as Chef become increasingly popular in organizations, learners will gain a better understanding of configuration management, making them more valuable in the DevOps industry.
This automating infrastructure chef for devops course aims at developers to achieve DevOps Certifications. Some of the important benefits of achieving these certifications include:

  1. Validates your knowledge and understanding of DevOps tools and methods.
  2. Provides you with global recognition for your knowledge, skills, and experience.
  3. Adds a credential to your resume and thus makes you stand out of the crowd.
  4. Helps you get more opportunities to enhance your career as a DevOps professional.
  5. Gets you more chances of being promoted in your current job or getting a new job with a high paycheck.

A Coursera Certificate will be awarded to learners upon completion of the course, which will verify their knowledge of the program.
Enrolling in the "Automating Infrastructure - Chef for DevOps" course is an excellent opportunity for learners to achieve career growth by becoming proficient DevOps professionals.
With a better understanding of Chef for DevOps, learners can enhance their DevOps skills and achieve certifications that can make them stand out from the crowd. By becoming a certified DevOps professional, learners will have better opportunities for promotion, higher salaries, and the chance to work on exciting DevOps projects.

What You Will Learn

  • Interpret knowledge about Fundamentals of Chef with DevOps tools.
  • Implement setup for Chef Infrastructure using AWS Services
  • Describe features of Chef-server and Chef-Client
  • Design and manage Recipes and Cookbooks

Syllabus

WEEK 1
Introduction to Chef Fundamentals
Welcome to Automating Infrastructure - Chef for DevOps course. By enrolling in this course, you are taking the first step to kickstarting your career in advanced DevOps field. In the first week of the course. we'll learn the essentials of Chef Fundamentals. This course will help learners to analyze stages of DevOps lifecycle. We will also familiarise with Continuous Deployment and Continuous Integration tools in this week.

WEEK 2
Chef Introduction and Infrastructure Setup
In the second week of this course, we'll learn about Chef DevOps and explore how Chef can help in DevOps Culture. We'll also describe the working of Chef Architecture. After identifying key Metrics of Chef, we'll end the module by exploring and determining the components of Chef.

WEEK 3
Recipes and Cookbooks
In the third week of the course, we'll get an overview of Recipes and Recipes attributes. We'll understand how to organize resources with recipes. We'll also explore cokkbooks and its working. By the end of this week, we'll have information about how to create and manage cookbooks using knife utility.

WEEK 4
Installing Chef-Server & Chef-Client Infrastructure
In the fourth week of the course, we'll learn the concepts of Chef-client and Chef-server in a detailed manner. We'll also explore nodes and its working. y the end of this week, we'll be able to implement the installation of Chef Development Kit on Chef workstation.

WEEK 5
Organizations, Groups and Data Bags
In the fifth week of the course, we'll be able to explore information about users, groups, role and their working. We'll demonstrate the working of organization, users, groups and roles in Chef. Also, we'll build a recipe to deploy a local user account from data bags. By the end of this module, we'll be in position to describe Data Bags.

WEEK 6
AWS Services With Chef
In the sixth week of the course, we'll be able to Illustrate AWS services such as EC2, VPC, Beanstalk, RDS and their working with Chef. We'll demonstrate working of MySQL and WordPress with Chef. By the end of this week,we wil perform Implementation of AWS ECR and ECS with Chef.

WEEK 7
Installation of MySQL and WordPress
In the last week of this course, we'll perform the implementation of MySQL installation. We'll also implement the creation of Cookbooks in WordPress. This module will end with a demonstration of WordPress installation.

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