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Learn Chef Rally

Continue your DevOps learning journey with Chef, Chef Automate, InSpec, and Habitat.

Want a set curriculum? Tracks will guide you every step of the way.

Getting Started

10 mins

Ready to dig in? Start your Chef journey here. We’ll talk about how to get started, what to do first and where to go next.

Demos and Quickstarts

3 hrs

Start

Want a taste of Chef, InSpec, and Habitat right away? Our preconfigured, ready-to-go environments will help you explore how they work in minutes.

Chef on Amazon Web Services

10 hrs

Start

Looking for AWS on the menu? Place your order here and you'll get a hang for the Chef basics, manage your first node, test Chef cookbooks on temporary cloud instances, and deploy changes to a production-like environment, all on AWS.

Compliance Automation with InSpec

3 hrs

Start

Use the InSpec language to specify compliance and security requirements as code. Find problems early, during development, and not after the fact.

Building Applications with Habitat

7 hrs

Start

Combine a few basic ingredients and you'll have the recipe for building modern and legacy applications that run anywhere. See how plans help you build software consistently and how the Supervisor starts, monitors, & acts upon changes made to your services.

Writing Cookbooks

9 hrs

Start

Sample advanced techniques for writing cookbooks, including how to turn scripts into recipes. Get familiar with common patterns used in cookbooks, as well as how to use notifications, helper methods and data bags.

Developer Essentials

2 hrs

Start

Add some more goodness to your plate by learning to analyze web operations and describe each component as code in a Chef cookbook. Go hands-on with the tools needed to write, store, and test that code in a collaborative DevOps environment.

Becoming a Part of the Chef Community

2 hrs

Start

Go through the menu of ways to get involved with the global Chef community, and find out how to build a community within your own organization. Learn about Chef Supermarket, messaging tools, and in-house groups as ways to meet and work with other Chefs.

Chef Certification Prep

7 hrs

Start

Think you know Chef and are ready for the next step? To help you prepare for Chef certification, size up your skills with these hands-on, real-world challenges.

Infrastructure Automation

9 hrs

Start

Discover how Chef's test and repair approach enables you to turn infrastructure into code and serve it up quickly. You'll learn what Chef does during a run and how to configure a system using a mix of resources, recipes, and cookbooks.

Local Development and Testing

8 hrs

Start

Not what you thought you ordered? See how to find errors in your cookbooks by testing them on your local machine. Learn to set up a virtual environment, develop code, and use every tool in the kitchen to ensure everything works.

Chef on Microsoft Azure

10 hrs

Start

Looking for Azure on the menu? Place your order here and you'll get a hang for the Chef basics, manage your first node, test Chef cookbooks on temporary cloud instances, and deploy changes to a production-like environment, all on Azure.

Integrated Compliance with Chef

6 hrs

Start

Serve up continuous automation to automatically detect and correct compliance failures in your infrastructure. Put your InSpec knowledge to the test and try your hand at ensuring that a service is HIPAA-compliant.

Deploying Applications with Habitat

3 hrs

Start

Ready to serve up your app to your users? Use Habitat Builder to neatly package your app and anything it needs to run. Deploy your app to the cloud or anywhere else and keep it updated in real time.

Continuous Automation

9 hrs

Start

Hungry for continuous automation? Satisfy your appetite with Chef Automate, the platform for continuous development, and learn how it can provide visibility into your infrastructure. Also discover how to deploy a cookbook using the Chef Automate pipeline.

Extending Chef

8 hrs

Start

Learn to extend Chef's out-of-the-box capabilities with your own a la carte creations, like developing an Ohai plugin to collect a custom set of attributes or creating custom resources. Apply refactoring techniques that let you write multi-platform cookbooks.

DevOps Transformation

6 hrs

Start

Digest the cultural and technological changes that need to happen to mix DevOps principles into your organization. Begin your own DevOps journey through videos, case studies, and exercises to evaluate your progress.

Administering a Chef Installation

4 hrs

Start

Acquaint yourself with the Chef server's individual ingredients and how they work together. Learn best practices for securing the server by controlling access to secrets.

Getting Started

Getting started with Learn Chef Rally

Beginner | 15 minutes

Get a brief overview of Learn Chef Rally and learn how to earn badges, set up a curriculum, and reach out to the community.

Start

Infrastructure Automation

Learn the Chef basics

Beginner | 1 hour

Get started by using Chef to keep your servers in line with the configuration policies you describe.

Start

Infrastructure Automation

Manage a node with Chef server

Beginner | 3 hours

Learn how the Chef server acts as a central repository for your cookbooks and for information about your servers, or nodes.

Start

Infrastructure Automation

Get started with Test Kitchen

Beginner | 2 hours

Learn how to speed up the development process by using Test Kitchen to apply your infrastructure code from your workstation.

Start

Infrastructure Automation

Go beyond the basics

Beginner | 1 hour

Learn what happens behind the scenes when chef-client runs.

Start

Infrastructure Automation

Keep your Chef cookbooks up to date

Beginner

Learn how to update your cookbooks to make use of the latest Chef features and improvements.

Start

Demos and Quickstarts

Try Chef Automate

Beginner | 1 hour

Get started with a trial version of Chef Automate in minutes.

Start

Demos and Quickstarts

Try InSpec

Beginner | 1 hour

See how InSpec can help you quickly identify potential compliance and security issues on your infrastructure.

Start

Demos and Quickstarts

Try Habitat

Beginner | 1 hour

Explore the ease of packaging, deploying, and running your applications with Habitat.

Start

Local Development and Testing

Get started with Test Kitchen

Beginner | 2 hours

Learn how to speed up the development process by using Test Kitchen to apply your infrastructure code from your workstation.

Start

Local Development and Testing

Getting started with automated testing

Beginner | 15 minutes

Discover resources that will help you get started with automated testing

Start

Local Development and Testing

Test driven development with InSpec

Beginner | 3 hours

Learn how to use InSpec to automatically verify a basic web server configuration.

Start

Local Development and Testing

Unit test with ChefSpec

Beginner | 1 hour

Learn how to use ChefSpec to speed up the feedback cycle even more by simulating the execution of your resources in memory without the need to create test instances.

Start

Local Development and Testing

Verify code style with Cookstyle and Foodcritic

Beginner | 1 hour

Learn how to use Cookstyle and Foodcritic to help ensure that your code adheres to standard style guidelines and avoids common problems.

Start

Local Development and Testing

Best practices for testing

Beginner | 5 hours

Learn more about proven techniques for writing quality tests.

Start

Chef on Amazon Web Services

Learn the Chef basics

Beginner | 1 hour

Get started by using Chef to keep your servers in line with the configuration policies you describe.

Start

Chef on Amazon Web Services

Manage a node with Chef Automate

Beginner | 4 hours

Get hands on with Chef Automate and see how to gain insight into what's happening on your infrastructure.

Start

Chef on Amazon Web Services

Get started with Test Kitchen

Beginner | 2 hours

Learn how to speed up the development process by using Test Kitchen to apply your infrastructure code from your workstation.

Start

Chef on Amazon Web Services

Deploy infrastructure changes with Chef Automate

Beginner | 5 hours

Use Chef Automate to push configuration changes to a production-like environment.

Start

Chef on Amazon Web Services

Upgrade chef-client

Beginner

Learn how to upgrade Chef client on your nodes.

Start

Chef on Amazon Web Services

Secure AWS resources with InSpec

Beginner

Build an InSpec profile that verifies your cloud infrastructure.

Start

Chef on Microsoft Azure

Learn the Chef basics

Beginner | 1 hour

Get started by using Chef to keep your servers in line with the configuration policies you describe.

Start

Chef on Microsoft Azure

Manage a node with Chef Automate

Beginner | 4 hours

Get hands on with Chef Automate and see how to gain insight into what's happening on your infrastructure.

Start

Chef on Microsoft Azure

Get started with Test Kitchen

Beginner | 2 hours

Learn how to speed up the development process by using Test Kitchen to apply your infrastructure code from your workstation.

Start

Chef on Microsoft Azure

Deploy infrastructure changes with Chef Automate

Beginner | 5 hours

Use Chef Automate to push configuration changes to a production-like environment.

Start

Compliance Automation with InSpec

Try InSpec

Beginner | 1 hour

See how InSpec can help you quickly identify potential compliance and security issues on your infrastructure.

Start

Compliance Automation with InSpec

Explore InSpec resources

Beginner

Build an InSpec profile that verifies whether an NGINX installation meets your requirements.

Start

Compliance Automation with InSpec

Create an InSpec profile from compliance documentation

Beginner

See how to create a compliance profile from documentation, using the Center for Internet Security (CIS) benchmarks as an example.

Start

Compliance Automation with InSpec

Secure AWS resources with InSpec

Beginner

Build an InSpec profile that verifies your cloud infrastructure.

Start

Compliance Automation with InSpec

Automating compliance for finance

Beginner | 10 minutes

Learn how Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) uses InSpec to ensure compliance and security.

Start

Integrated Compliance with Chef

Try InSpec

Beginner | 1 hour

See how InSpec can help you quickly identify potential compliance and security issues on your infrastructure.

Start

Integrated Compliance with Chef

Detect and correct compliance failures with Test Kitchen

Intermediate | 1 hour

Learn how to use Test Kitchen to detect and correct compliance failures on local test infrastructure.

Start

Integrated Compliance with Chef

Detect and correct compliance failures with Chef Automate

Intermediate | 1 hour

Learn about the many compliance profiles that Chef Automate provides. See how to use Chef Automate to store the results of your Chef and InSpec runs.

Start

Integrated Compliance with Chef

Create a custom InSpec profile

Intermediate | 1 hour

Learn how to create a profile that implements custom controls and how to inherit controls from other profiles.

Start

Integrated Compliance with Chef

Compliance in action

Intermediate | 1 hour

Learn how companies are automating compliance to deliver changes with greater speed and safety.

Start

Building Applications with Habitat

Try Habitat

Beginner | 1 hour

Explore the ease of packaging, deploying, and running your applications with Habitat.

Start

Building Applications with Habitat

Build a web application with Habitat

1 hour

Use scaffolding to quickly build a Ruby web application.

Start

Building Applications with Habitat

Build a Habitat package from source

1 hour

Extend the web application you built previously to support JPEG images.

Start

Building Applications with Habitat

Reconfigure Habitat services through repackaging and live updates

30 minutes

Extract and customize the scaffolding's default configuration; then repackage the application. Or perform in-place service upgrades through the Habitat CLI.

Start

Building Applications with Habitat

Build a legacy application with Habitat

1 hour

Learn the core build phases, plan settings, and lifecycle hooks necessary to package a legacy application.

Start

Building Applications with Habitat

Make your Habitat applications configurable

30 minutes

Reconfigure your application without repackaging it.

Start

Building Applications with Habitat

Build a Habitat package with source that needs a patch

30 minutes

Build a Habitat package from an archive that uses a different build chain and requires you to diff and patch the source to correctly build.

Start

Building Applications with Habitat

Build a web application that uses a database

1 hour

Build a web application that dynamically binds to a running database installation.

Start

Deploying Applications with Habitat

Try Habitat

Beginner | 1 hour

Explore the ease of packaging, deploying, and running your applications with Habitat.

Start

Deploying Applications with Habitat

Build your packages with Habitat Builder

1 hour

Learn how Builder automatically builds, packages, and publishes your applications when you push changes to GitHub.

Start

Deploying Applications with Habitat

Reconfigure Habitat services through repackaging and live updates

30 minutes

Extract and customize the scaffolding's default configuration; then repackage the application. Or perform in-place service upgrades through the Habitat CLI.

Start

Writing Cookbooks

Create a web app cookbook

Intermediate | 3 hours

Learn to create reusable cookbooks, using a LAMP stack configuration as an example.

Start

Writing Cookbooks

Keep your Chef cookbooks up to date

Beginner

Learn how to update your cookbooks to make use of the latest Chef features and improvements.

Start

Writing Cookbooks

Scripts to recipes with Tomcat

Intermediate | 1 hour

Learn how to convert manual installation instructions to automated, tested recipes, using Tomcat as an example.

Start

Writing Cookbooks

Scripts to recipes with Python, Pip, and Django

Intermediate | 1 hour

Learn how to convert manual installation instructions to automated, tested recipes, using Django as an example.

Start

Writing Cookbooks

Working with legacy code - Redis

Intermediate | 1 hour

Learn how to convert legacy code into tested recipes, using Redis as an example.

Start

Writing Cookbooks

Using community cookbooks - Jenkins

Intermediate | 1 hour

Learn to use community cookbooks to convert a configuration script to a recipe, using Jenkins as an example.

Start

Continuous Automation

Chef Automate: Scale your use of automation

Intermediate | 1 hour

Learn how Chef Automate unifies infrastructure automation, compliance automation and application automation.

Start

Continuous Automation

Manage a node with Chef Automate

Beginner | 4 hours

Get hands on with Chef Automate and see how to gain insight into what's happening on your infrastructure.

Start

Continuous Automation

Deploy infrastructure changes with Chef Automate

Beginner | 5 hours

Use Chef Automate to push configuration changes to a production-like environment.

Start

Developer Essentials

Systems administrator essentials

Beginner | 30 minutes

Learn about the tools, commands, and protocols that are core to administering systems.

Start

Developer Essentials

Text editors

Beginner | 30 minutes

A powerful text editor is an important asset when it comes to working with Chef. Learn what to look for in a text editor and we'll also talk about a few other tools along the way.

Start

Developer Essentials

Version control

Beginner | 30 minutes

When infrastructure is code we need to use version control to maintain a history of what happened and to collaborate with others on our team.

Start

Developer Essentials

The Ruby behind Chef

Beginner | 1 hour

Learn Ruby within the context of Chef.

Start

Developer Essentials

Web operations essentials

Beginner | 30 minutes

Learn about the complexities of configuration and the power of infrastructure as code.

Start

Extending Chef

Custom resources in Chef client 12.5

Intermediate | 1 hour

Learn how to build custom resource types that extend Chef's built-in capabilities.

Start

Extending Chef

Build a custom resource

Intermediate | 1 hour

Learn how to create a custom Chef resource that configures a web server.

Start

Extending Chef

Refactoring a custom resource - Redis

Intermediate | 1 hour

Learn ways build a custom resource using a test-driven approach.

Start

Extending Chef

Build a custom Ohai plugin (webinar)

Intermediate | 1 hour

Learn how Ohai plugins are structured, built, and tested.

Start

Extending Chef

Build an Ohai plugin

Intermediate | 1 hour

Learn how to create, test, and deploy an Ohai plugin.

Start

Extending Chef

Managing configuration - ssh_config on Linux

Intermediate | 1 hour

Learn how to use Chef to manage the SSH configuration file.

Start

Extending Chef

Refactoring templates - chef-client cookbook

Intermediate | 1 hour

Learn how to work with community cookbooks and refactor a template with complicated logic to make it clearer.

Start

Extending Chef

Helper methods - NTP cookbook

Intermediate | 1 hour

Learn how to refactor a recipe to define helper methods.

Start

Becoming a Part of the Chef Community

Awesome Community Chefs

Culture Beginner | 1 hour

Learn what makes the Chef community special.

Start

Becoming a Part of the Chef Community

Forging connections among people with diverse skills

Culture Beginner | 5 minutes

Diversity in the workplace offers a variety of backgrounds and perspectives, which can lead to better products.

Start

Becoming a Part of the Chef Community

Open source collaboration

Culture Beginner | 15 minutes

Learn how to particpate in open source communities.

Start

DevOps Transformation

Introduction to the DevOps journey

Culture | 1 hour

Start your DevOps journey here. The DevOps journey begins with understanding its foundations.

Start

DevOps Transformation

DevOps at scale

Culture | 2 hours

Hear how companies from around the industry are using DevOps to transform how they create and deliver software.

Start

DevOps Transformation

DevOps culture and process

Culture | 3 hours

Learn how to navigate the cultural side of DevOps transformation.

Start

DevOps Transformation

Introduction to tooling for DevOps

Culture | 15 minutes

Learn how to look at industry tools from a DevOps point of view.

Start

Chef Certification Prep

Challenge: Configure Tomcat

Intermediate | 3 hours

Automate Tomcat installation steps, which are performed manually from the command line, to a Chef cookbook.

Start

Chef Certification Prep

Challenge: Configure Apache and HAProxy

Intermediate | 2 hours

Configure Apache web server and add an HAProxy load balancer in front of it.

Start

Chef Certification Prep

Challenge: Configure users and NTP

Intermediate | 2 hours

Configure users such that they may only access the system during business hours.

Start

Administering a Chef Installation

Understanding the Chef server

Intermediate | 1 hour

Learn how to maintain your own Chef server and plan for large-scale deployments.

Start

Administering a Chef Installation

Keep your Chef cookbooks up to date

Beginner

Learn how to update your cookbooks to make use of the latest Chef features and improvements.

Start

Administering a Chef Installation

Securing Chef

Intermediate | 3 hours

Learn how to secure your Chef installation, including how to effectively manage sensitive data.

Start

Compliance as Code with InSpec 1.0

1 hour

Learn how InSpec can improve compliance across your applications and infrastructure.

Start

Chef fundamentals series

5 hours

This webinar series helps prepare you to use Chef to write infrastructure.

Start

Using Chef Compliance to secure your servers

30 minutes

Learn how Chef Compliance gives you immediate feedback on whether your servers are configured as they should be, using the CIS benchmarks as an example.

Start

Continuous Availability at IBM

15 minutes

Learn what it means at IBM to run the cloud that supports many popular web sites.

Start

Getting Started

Getting started with Learn Chef Rally

Beginner | 15 minutes

Get a brief overview of Learn Chef Rally and learn how to earn badges, set up a curriculum, and reach out to the community.

Start

Infrastructure Automation

Manage a node with Chef server

Beginner | 3 hours

Learn how the Chef server acts as a central repository for your cookbooks and for information about your servers, or nodes.

Start

Infrastructure Automation

Go beyond the basics

Beginner | 1 hour

Learn what happens behind the scenes when chef-client runs.

Start

Demos and Quickstarts

Try Chef Automate

Beginner | 1 hour

Get started with a trial version of Chef Automate in minutes.

Start

Demos and Quickstarts

Try Habitat

Beginner | 1 hour

Explore the ease of packaging, deploying, and running your applications with Habitat.

Start

Local Development and Testing

Getting started with automated testing

Beginner | 15 minutes

Discover resources that will help you get started with automated testing

Start

Local Development and Testing

Unit test with ChefSpec

Beginner | 1 hour

Learn how to use ChefSpec to speed up the feedback cycle even more by simulating the execution of your resources in memory without the need to create test instances.

Start

Local Development and Testing

Best practices for testing

Beginner | 5 hours

Learn more about proven techniques for writing quality tests.

Start

Chef on Amazon Web Services

Manage a node with Chef Automate

Beginner | 4 hours

Get hands on with Chef Automate and see how to gain insight into what's happening on your infrastructure.

Start

Chef on Amazon Web Services

Deploy infrastructure changes with Chef Automate

Beginner | 5 hours

Use Chef Automate to push configuration changes to a production-like environment.

Start

Chef on Amazon Web Services

Secure AWS resources with InSpec

Beginner

Build an InSpec profile that verifies your cloud infrastructure.

Start

Chef on Microsoft Azure

Manage a node with Chef Automate

Beginner | 4 hours

Get hands on with Chef Automate and see how to gain insight into what's happening on your infrastructure.

Start

Chef on Microsoft Azure

Deploy infrastructure changes with Chef Automate

Beginner | 5 hours

Use Chef Automate to push configuration changes to a production-like environment.

Start

Compliance Automation with InSpec

Explore InSpec resources

Beginner

Build an InSpec profile that verifies whether an NGINX installation meets your requirements.

Start

Compliance Automation with InSpec

Secure AWS resources with InSpec

Beginner

Build an InSpec profile that verifies your cloud infrastructure.

Start

Integrated Compliance with Chef

Try InSpec

Beginner | 1 hour

See how InSpec can help you quickly identify potential compliance and security issues on your infrastructure.

Start

Integrated Compliance with Chef

Detect and correct compliance failures with Chef Automate

Intermediate | 1 hour

Learn about the many compliance profiles that Chef Automate provides. See how to use Chef Automate to store the results of your Chef and InSpec runs.

Start

Integrated Compliance with Chef

Compliance in action

Intermediate | 1 hour

Learn how companies are automating compliance to deliver changes with greater speed and safety.

Start

Building Applications with Habitat

Build a web application with Habitat

1 hour

Use scaffolding to quickly build a Ruby web application.

Start

Building Applications with Habitat

Reconfigure Habitat services through repackaging and live updates

30 minutes

Extract and customize the scaffolding's default configuration; then repackage the application. Or perform in-place service upgrades through the Habitat CLI.

Start

Building Applications with Habitat

Make your Habitat applications configurable

30 minutes

Reconfigure your application without repackaging it.

Start

Building Applications with Habitat

Build a web application that uses a database

1 hour

Build a web application that dynamically binds to a running database installation.

Start

Deploying Applications with Habitat

Build your packages with Habitat Builder

1 hour

Learn how Builder automatically builds, packages, and publishes your applications when you push changes to GitHub.

Start

Writing Cookbooks

Create a web app cookbook

Intermediate | 3 hours

Learn to create reusable cookbooks, using a LAMP stack configuration as an example.

Start

Writing Cookbooks

Scripts to recipes with Tomcat

Intermediate | 1 hour

Learn how to convert manual installation instructions to automated, tested recipes, using Tomcat as an example.

Start

Writing Cookbooks

Working with legacy code - Redis

Intermediate | 1 hour

Learn how to convert legacy code into tested recipes, using Redis as an example.

Start

Continuous Automation

Chef Automate: Scale your use of automation

Intermediate | 1 hour

Learn how Chef Automate unifies infrastructure automation, compliance automation and application automation.

Start

Continuous Automation

Deploy infrastructure changes with Chef Automate

Beginner | 5 hours

Use Chef Automate to push configuration changes to a production-like environment.

Start

Developer Essentials

Text editors

Beginner | 30 minutes

A powerful text editor is an important asset when it comes to working with Chef. Learn what to look for in a text editor and we'll also talk about a few other tools along the way.

Start

Developer Essentials

The Ruby behind Chef

Beginner | 1 hour

Learn Ruby within the context of Chef.

Start

Extending Chef

Custom resources in Chef client 12.5

Intermediate | 1 hour

Learn how to build custom resource types that extend Chef's built-in capabilities.

Start

Extending Chef

Refactoring a custom resource - Redis

Intermediate | 1 hour

Learn ways build a custom resource using a test-driven approach.

Start

Extending Chef

Build an Ohai plugin

Intermediate | 1 hour

Learn how to create, test, and deploy an Ohai plugin.

Start

Extending Chef

Refactoring templates - chef-client cookbook

Intermediate | 1 hour

Learn how to work with community cookbooks and refactor a template with complicated logic to make it clearer.

Start

Becoming a Part of the Chef Community

Awesome Community Chefs

Culture Beginner | 1 hour

Learn what makes the Chef community special.

Start

Becoming a Part of the Chef Community

Open source collaboration

Culture Beginner | 15 minutes

Learn how to particpate in open source communities.

Start

DevOps Transformation

DevOps at scale

Culture | 2 hours

Hear how companies from around the industry are using DevOps to transform how they create and deliver software.

Start

DevOps Transformation

Introduction to tooling for DevOps

Culture | 15 minutes

Learn how to look at industry tools from a DevOps point of view.

Start

Chef Certification Prep

Challenge: Configure Apache and HAProxy

Intermediate | 2 hours

Configure Apache web server and add an HAProxy load balancer in front of it.

Start

Administering a Chef Installation

Understanding the Chef server

Intermediate | 1 hour

Learn how to maintain your own Chef server and plan for large-scale deployments.

Start

Administering a Chef Installation

Securing Chef

Intermediate | 3 hours

Learn how to secure your Chef installation, including how to effectively manage sensitive data.

Start

Chef fundamentals series

5 hours

This webinar series helps prepare you to use Chef to write infrastructure.

Start

Continuous Availability at IBM

15 minutes

Learn what it means at IBM to run the cloud that supports many popular web sites.

Start

Infrastructure Automation

Learn the Chef basics

Beginner | 1 hour

Get started by using Chef to keep your servers in line with the configuration policies you describe.

Start

Infrastructure Automation

Get started with Test Kitchen

Beginner | 2 hours

Learn how to speed up the development process by using Test Kitchen to apply your infrastructure code from your workstation.

Start

Infrastructure Automation

Keep your Chef cookbooks up to date

Beginner

Learn how to update your cookbooks to make use of the latest Chef features and improvements.

Start

Demos and Quickstarts

Try InSpec

Beginner | 1 hour

See how InSpec can help you quickly identify potential compliance and security issues on your infrastructure.

Start

Local Development and Testing

Get started with Test Kitchen

Beginner | 2 hours

Learn how to speed up the development process by using Test Kitchen to apply your infrastructure code from your workstation.

Start

Local Development and Testing

Test driven development with InSpec

Beginner | 3 hours

Learn how to use InSpec to automatically verify a basic web server configuration.

Start

Local Development and Testing

Verify code style with Cookstyle and Foodcritic

Beginner | 1 hour

Learn how to use Cookstyle and Foodcritic to help ensure that your code adheres to standard style guidelines and avoids common problems.

Start

Chef on Amazon Web Services

Learn the Chef basics

Beginner | 1 hour

Get started by using Chef to keep your servers in line with the configuration policies you describe.

Start

Chef on Amazon Web Services

Get started with Test Kitchen

Beginner | 2 hours

Learn how to speed up the development process by using Test Kitchen to apply your infrastructure code from your workstation.

Start

Chef on Amazon Web Services

Upgrade chef-client

Beginner

Learn how to upgrade Chef client on your nodes.

Start

Chef on Microsoft Azure

Learn the Chef basics

Beginner | 1 hour

Get started by using Chef to keep your servers in line with the configuration policies you describe.

Start

Chef on Microsoft Azure

Get started with Test Kitchen

Beginner | 2 hours

Learn how to speed up the development process by using Test Kitchen to apply your infrastructure code from your workstation.

Start

Compliance Automation with InSpec

Try InSpec

Beginner | 1 hour

See how InSpec can help you quickly identify potential compliance and security issues on your infrastructure.

Start

Compliance Automation with InSpec

Create an InSpec profile from compliance documentation

Beginner

See how to create a compliance profile from documentation, using the Center for Internet Security (CIS) benchmarks as an example.

Start

Compliance Automation with InSpec

Automating compliance for finance

Beginner | 10 minutes

Learn how Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) uses InSpec to ensure compliance and security.

Start

Integrated Compliance with Chef

Detect and correct compliance failures with Test Kitchen

Intermediate | 1 hour

Learn how to use Test Kitchen to detect and correct compliance failures on local test infrastructure.

Start

Integrated Compliance with Chef

Create a custom InSpec profile

Intermediate | 1 hour

Learn how to create a profile that implements custom controls and how to inherit controls from other profiles.

Start

Building Applications with Habitat

Try Habitat

Beginner | 1 hour

Explore the ease of packaging, deploying, and running your applications with Habitat.

Start

Building Applications with Habitat

Build a Habitat package from source

1 hour

Extend the web application you built previously to support JPEG images.

Start

Building Applications with Habitat

Build a legacy application with Habitat

1 hour

Learn the core build phases, plan settings, and lifecycle hooks necessary to package a legacy application.

Start

Building Applications with Habitat

Build a Habitat package with source that needs a patch

30 minutes

Build a Habitat package from an archive that uses a different build chain and requires you to diff and patch the source to correctly build.

Start

Deploying Applications with Habitat

Try Habitat

Beginner | 1 hour

Explore the ease of packaging, deploying, and running your applications with Habitat.

Start

Deploying Applications with Habitat

Reconfigure Habitat services through repackaging and live updates

30 minutes

Extract and customize the scaffolding's default configuration; then repackage the application. Or perform in-place service upgrades through the Habitat CLI.

Start

Writing Cookbooks

Keep your Chef cookbooks up to date

Beginner

Learn how to update your cookbooks to make use of the latest Chef features and improvements.

Start

Writing Cookbooks

Scripts to recipes with Python, Pip, and Django

Intermediate | 1 hour

Learn how to convert manual installation instructions to automated, tested recipes, using Django as an example.

Start

Writing Cookbooks

Using community cookbooks - Jenkins

Intermediate | 1 hour

Learn to use community cookbooks to convert a configuration script to a recipe, using Jenkins as an example.

Start

Continuous Automation

Manage a node with Chef Automate

Beginner | 4 hours

Get hands on with Chef Automate and see how to gain insight into what's happening on your infrastructure.

Start

Developer Essentials

Systems administrator essentials

Beginner | 30 minutes

Learn about the tools, commands, and protocols that are core to administering systems.

Start

Developer Essentials

Version control

Beginner | 30 minutes

When infrastructure is code we need to use version control to maintain a history of what happened and to collaborate with others on our team.

Start

Developer Essentials

Web operations essentials

Beginner | 30 minutes

Learn about the complexities of configuration and the power of infrastructure as code.

Start

Extending Chef

Build a custom resource

Intermediate | 1 hour

Learn how to create a custom Chef resource that configures a web server.

Start

Extending Chef

Build a custom Ohai plugin (webinar)

Intermediate | 1 hour

Learn how Ohai plugins are structured, built, and tested.

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Extending Chef

Managing configuration - ssh_config on Linux

Intermediate | 1 hour

Learn how to use Chef to manage the SSH configuration file.

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Extending Chef

Helper methods - NTP cookbook

Intermediate | 1 hour

Learn how to refactor a recipe to define helper methods.

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Becoming a Part of the Chef Community

Forging connections among people with diverse skills

Culture Beginner | 5 minutes

Diversity in the workplace offers a variety of backgrounds and perspectives, which can lead to better products.

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DevOps Transformation

Introduction to the DevOps journey

Culture | 1 hour

Start your DevOps journey here. The DevOps journey begins with understanding its foundations.

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DevOps Transformation

DevOps culture and process

Culture | 3 hours

Learn how to navigate the cultural side of DevOps transformation.

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Chef Certification Prep

Challenge: Configure Tomcat

Intermediate | 3 hours

Automate Tomcat installation steps, which are performed manually from the command line, to a Chef cookbook.

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Chef Certification Prep

Challenge: Configure users and NTP

Intermediate | 2 hours

Configure users such that they may only access the system during business hours.

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Administering a Chef Installation

Keep your Chef cookbooks up to date

Beginner

Learn how to update your cookbooks to make use of the latest Chef features and improvements.

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Compliance as Code with InSpec 1.0

1 hour

Learn how InSpec can improve compliance across your applications and infrastructure.

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Using Chef Compliance to secure your servers

30 minutes

Learn how Chef Compliance gives you immediate feedback on whether your servers are configured as they should be, using the CIS benchmarks as an example.

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