Learn CHEF with Real Code Examples

Learn Ruby basics for Chef DSL

Understand Chef architecture (Client, Server, Workstation)

Write simple recipes and cookbooks

Test and deploy cookbooks to nodes

Use Chef Automate for monitoring and compliance

Week 1: Single-node recipe creation

Week 2: Multi-node environment setup

Week 3: CI/CD integration with Chef

Week 4: Security and compliance automation

Week 5: Enterprise-scale deployment and optimization

What is Chef and how does it work?

Explain the concept of idempotency in Chef.

What are cookbooks and recipes?

How do you manage environments and roles?

What is Chef Automate used for?

Node = managed server

Cookbook = collection of recipes

Recipe = configuration instructions

Resource = system component managed declaratively

Role = node policy definition

Learning Chef

Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook

Test-Driven Infrastructure with Chef

Chef: Modern Infrastructure Automation

Mastering Chef

Getting started with Chef Workstation

Writing your first recipe

Creating cookbooks and testing with Test Kitchen

Automating server provisioning

Managing environments and roles

https://docs.chef.io/

https://www.chef.io/

Chef Community Slack

Chef Supermarket

StackOverflow Chef tag

ChefConf events

Chef mailing lists and forums

Chef Community Slack and forums

Chef Supermarket for cookbooks

StackOverflow Chef tag

Chef documentation and learning portal

ChefConf conferences and workshops