Chef and Ansible Technical Essentials

Course Description

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