Chef (Part 5 of 6): Managing Nodes and Roles

Chef takes the process of software deployment and converts it into code, which makes managing your infrastructure smoother and more efficient. This course covers managing nodes in your infrastructure system, assigning roles to manage groups of nodes, and how to index and search your infrastructure This course contains the following lessons:

Lesson 1:

• Managing Nodes
• Adding Nodes
• Lab: Bootstrap Node
• Verifying Nodes
• Bonus Chef Client.

Lesson 2:

• Roles
• Describing Roles
• Creating Roles
• Load Balancer Role
• Bonus Knife SSH.

Lesson 3:

• Indexing and Search
• Search Index
• Knife Search
• Dynamic Load Balancer
• Lab: Testing Dynamic IB.