Training

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Public and Private Training Classes

We offer comprehensive training classes conducted by Opscode employees who have years of experience working in systems administration and integration. Classes are currently offered in the following format:

Opscode Chef Fundamentals (3 Days)

Chef Fundamentals is a three day technical class that covers the basic architecture of the Chef framework, tools and API. Each of the core units in the class includes hands on exercises to reinforce the material. At the end of the class, students will have a code repository that can be used and modified to solve real business problems.

This is the three day course agenda:

  • Getting started with Opscode Hosted Chef
  • Anatomy of a Chef run
  • Cookbooks, recipes and resources
  • Just enough Ruby for Chef
  • Chef Resources in depth
  • Troubleshooting and debugging
  • All about the Chef node
  • How to create and use Roles
  • Using and modifying Community and Opscode cookbooks
  • Managing multiple nodes and using Chef Search
  • Describing infrastructure with data
  • Additional topics as time permits: Environments, LWRPs, plugins

Pricing:

On-premise: $11,750 plus travel expenses, for a class size up to 12. Incremental pricing for additional students.

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Opscode training materials are released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0 License, and they are provided freely to Chef users.

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