Description
Chef is a powerful automation platform that transforms complex infrastructure into code, bringing your servers and services to life. Whether you’re operating in the cloud, on-premises, or a hybrid, Chef automates how applications are configured, deployed, and managed across your network, no matter its size.
This course takes you beyond Chef Automate compliance. You express your security requirements as code and automate the assessment and remediation of your infrastructure.
PUE is Chef Official Training Partner, authorized by Chef to deliver official training in Chef technologies.
Furthermore, PUE is accredited and recognized to offer consulting and mentoring services on the implementation of Chef solutions for business environment with the consequent added value in the practical and business knowledge delivered in their official courses.
Audience and prerequisites
This course is intended to system administrators, developers, etc. seeking to use Chef Automate compliance UI, perform compliance scans against Windows and Linux nodes, and remediate compliance issues.
We recommend for this training be familiar with a text editor such as nano, emacs or vi/vim and with the command line.
Objectives
By the end of this course, the student will have assumed the following skills:
- Chef Automate compliance overview.
- Using the Chef Automate UI.
- Running compliance scans, remediating issues, and re-scanning nodes.
- Creating and managing custom compliance profiles using InSpec.
- Using the audit cookbook.
- Scheduling scans and running reports.
Topics
- Introduction.
- Using the Chef Automate UI.
- Detect and Correct – Linux Nodes.
- Detecting Compliance Issues on Windows Nodes.
- Creating Custom Profiles.
- Workstation Installation.
- The Chef Server.
- Using the Audit Cookbook.
- Further Resources.