Chef (Part 6 of 6) Environments and Data Bags

Chef takes the process of software deployment and converts it into code, which makes managing your infrastructure smoother and more efficient. This course covers how to build an environment, which is a way to map an organization’s workflow to what can be configured and managed when using Chef server. Next, it covers how to make a Data Bag, or information that can be loaded by cookbooks and used during searches. Finally, it closes with a summary of what you've learned in this course as well as how to go forward. This course contains the following lessons:

Lesson 1:

• Environments
• Exploring Environments
• Managing Environments
• Lab: Acceptance Environments
• Refine Load Balancer.

Lesson 2:

• Overview Data Bags
• Data Bags
• Using Data Bags
• Dynamic Data Bags
• Lab: Managing Data Bags
• Encrypted Data Bags.

Lesson 3:

• What have we learned
• What now.

Lesson 4:

• Further Resources
• Chef Community.