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Chef, part 5 of 6: Managing Nodes and Roles

with expert Robin Beck


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Release date 9/22/2019
Level Advanced
Runtime 1h 38m
Closed captioning N/A
Transcript N/A
eBooks / courseware N/A
Hands-on labs N/A
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Course description

Chef takes the process of software deployment and converts it into code making managing your infrastructure smoother and more efficient. This course covers managing nodes in your infrastructure system, assigning roles to manage groups of nodes as well as how to index and search your infrastructure

Prerequisites

Basic System Administration Remote administration Basic Unix command-line navigation

Meet the expert

Robin has completed two B.A.'s in astronomy and physics and is a Certified Chef Developer. Currently he delivers in-person and virtual trainings in DevOps and produces educational content for online learning spaces. Robin continues delivering world-class trainings on DevOps and Cloud Automation technologies.

Course outline



Managing Nodes and Roles

Managing Nodes (37:42)
  • Introduction (00:10)
  • Managing Nodes (01:03)
  • Adding Nodes (05:46)
  • Lab: Bootstrap Node (10:09)
  • Verifying Nodes (07:10)
  • Bonus Chef Client (13:13)
  • Summary (00:10)
Roles (31:15)
  • Introduction (00:10)
  • Roles (01:08)
  • Describing Roles (03:23)
  • Creating Roles (10:43)
  • Load Balancer Role (05:44)
  • Bonus Knife SSH (09:55)
  • Summary (00:10)
Index and Search (29:57)
  • Introduction (00:10)
  • Indexing and Search (00:55)
  • Search Index (03:31)
  • Knife Search (08:28)
  • Dynamic Load Balancer (11:00)
  • Lab: Testing Dynamic IB (05:40)
  • Summary (00:10)