Chef and Ansible Technical Essentials

Duration: 4 days – 28 hrs

Overview

The course is designed by DevOps Subject Matter Experts to help you understand Chef concepts and perform hands on Chef/Ansible deployment and operations.

 

Objectives

• Understand the core concepts of Ansible Components  
• Install & Configure Ansible Server on Centos7
• Register Windows 2016 server – Ansible node
• Register Ubuntu 16.04 server –Ansible node
• Register Redhat Linux server – Ansible node
• Write Playbook for all 3 ansible nodes to deploy web infrastructure
• Playbook: user, group, file management
• Ansible host groups
• Understand the core concepts of chef Components  
• Install & Configure chef Server   
• Register Windows 2016 server – Ansible node
• Register Ubuntu 18.04 server –Ansible node
• Register Redhat Linux server – Ansible node
• Write Playbook for all 3 ansible nodes to deploy web infrastructure
• Playbook: user, group, file management
• Chef environments

Audience

• Developers
• System administrators

 

Pre- requisites 

• Linux/Unix administration skills are required.
• Basic knowledge Windows systems, command line usage and system administration.

 

Course Content

Module 1: Ansible Big Picture (Theory)

• What and why of Ansible
• Ansible use cases and terminologies
• Controller server
• Nodes
• Playbook
• Ansible tower

 

Module 2: Ansible management server deployment (Hands on Lab by students)

• Ansible– Deploy a centos7 server
• Ssh to centos7 server
• Install and configure Ansible
• Create password less authentication keys
• Define nodes to be managed by ansible control server

 

Module 2: Ansible Node server deployment ( Hands on Lab by students)

• Deploy a RHEL server + 1 ubuntu 16.04 server
• Ssh to centos7 server
• Create password less authentication keys

 

Module 3: Ansible HTTPD Playbook for RHEL  node( Hands on Lab by students)

• Create a httpd playbook directory
• Write .yml file
• write httpd package install code for RHEL server
• write httpd service restart code
• write template resource type to push index.html and log.png to node
• write user and group creation code
• Apply the playbook on centos node and validate if website is up

 

Module 4: Ansible  Apache2 Playbook for ubuntu node( Hands on Lab by students)

• Create a apache2 playbook directory
• Write .yml file
• write apache2 package install code for ubuntu server
• write apache2 service restart code
• write template resource type to push index.html and log.png to node
• write user and group creation code
• Apply the playbook on ubuntu node and validate if website is up

 

Module 5: Ansible Windows 2016 server node deployment (Hands on Lab by students)

• Deploy a windows 2016 server
• Configure it as windows node under ansible management

 

Module 6:   Playbook for windows 2016 node (Hands on Lab by students)

• Create a iis playbook directory
• Write resource code to automate iis role on windows server
• Apply the playbook on Windows node and validate if website is up

 

Ansible Playbooks – (hands on labs)

• Conditionals Module
• Until Module
• Notify Module
• Vault Module
• Prompt – Interactive Playbook
• When Module
• The ‘MySQL_DB’ Module
• The ‘MySQL_User’ Module
• The ‘Pause’ Module
• The ‘WaitFor’ Module
• The ‘Command’ Module
• The ‘Cron’ Module
• The ‘Debug’ Module
• The ‘Fetch’ Module
• Agenda – Day 3 & 4 Chef automation

 

Module 1: Chef – Overview

• Infrastructure-As-A-Code
• Chef Components – 10000 feet overview
• Chef Server
• Hosted Chef Server
• Chef Development kit
• Chef Nodes
• Recipes
• Cookbooks
• Chef Analytics
• Chef Push job server

 

Module 2: Creating your own Chef server- Install and configure (Hands on lab by students)

• Deploy Ubuntu 14.04 Server
• SSH to Ubuntu Server
• Install chef-server on Ubuntu 14.04 linux server
• Install chef-manage on chef-server
• Install and configure Chef-Reporting

 

Module 3: Working hosted chef server (Hands on lab by students)

• Create a user account on hosted chef server
• Create organization on hosted chef server
• Download chef-starter kit
  

Module 4: Install and configure Chef-Workstation on ubuntu (Hands on lab by students)

• Deploy a Ubuntu 14.04 server
• Ssh to Ubuntu server
• Install and configure Chef development kit
• Configure knife to interact with your own Chef-server
• Configure knife to interact with your Hosted Chef-server
• Configure SSL based connection to chef server

 

Module 5: Install and configure Chef-Workstation on Windows 7 (Hands on lab by students)

• Install and configure Chef development kit
• Setup environment variables
• Configure knife to interact with your own Chef-server
• Configure knife to interact with your Hosted Chef-server
• Configure SSL based connection to chef server
• Module 6: Register a chef-Node Ubuntu server (Hands on lab by students)
• Deploy a Ubuntu 14.04 server
• Register the Ubuntu server under chef server management

 

Module 7: Create a cookbook for Ubuntu server (Hands on lab by students)

• Create a new cookbook for apache2 installation on Ubuntu server
• Write recipe for package install, service restart
• Create templates to be used in recipe
• Create index.html and log file to be used by recipe
• Module 8: Creating dependency cookbook for Ubuntu server (Hands on lab by students)
• Create a new cookbook for OS update installation on Ubuntu server
• Write recipe for update of Operating system
• Edit metadata.rb file to include dependency for apache2 cookbook

 

Module 9: Creating web role and using for Ubuntu server (Hands on lab by students)

• Understand and create web role
• Assign web role for chef node
• Validate chef-role is getting assigned to Ubuntu server

 

Module 10: Create a cookbook for RHEL-7 server (Hands on lab by students)

• Create a new cookbook for httpd installation on RHEL-7 server
• Write recipe for package install, service restart
• Create templates to be used in recipe
• Create index.html and log file to be used by recipe

 

Module 11: Create a cookbook for Windows 2016 server (Hands on lab by students)

• Create a new cookbook for iis installation on wind 2016 server
• Apply recipe to windows node
• Validate iis role is installed on windows server

 

Module 12: Chef Environments (Hands on lab by students)

• Create a test environment
• Create a Production environment
• Assign nodes different environment and apply playbooks