While these training materials are helpful, they aren’t meant to replace the official documentation, or instructor-led courses.
These materials are the same as those used during our public and private training sessions. You can find our public schedule of classes and other events on the Events Page. Let us know if you’d like to see a class offered in your area.
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This directory contains:
- Chef-Fundamentals.pdf – PDF of slides used in the three-day Chef Fundamentals class
- Chef-Introductory-Workshop.pdf – PDF of the slides used in the one-day Introductory Chef Workshop
The training materials on this site are updated when there are significant changes to the classes we offer.
If you are interested in a Chef quickstart guide, check out learnchef.com.
This guide takes you from “zero to first converge” in 3 easy steps:
- Set up your workstation
- Set up a local Chef cookbook rep
- Converge your first node
- Use of runtime variables to save into another variable using register in Ansible - September 6, 2018
- Ansible & Ansible Tower Variable Precedence Hierarchy - September 6, 2018
- How to use template in Ansible? - September 6, 2018
This Chef training overview is a valuable starting point for anyone interested in mastering infrastructure automation through configuration management. Chef is a powerful open‑source tool that lets teams define infrastructure as code using Ruby‑based cookbooks and recipes, automating the setup and maintenance of servers and applications across environments — which greatly reduces manual effort and configuration drift. Understanding Chef basics such as the Chef Server, Workstation, Nodes, and how policies, recipes, and resources work together gives learners practical skills that are highly relevant for DevOps roles and real‑world automation challenges. For anyone looking to build a career in DevOps or enhance their automation capabilities, investing time in Chef concepts and hands‑on labs can significantly boost both confidence and job readiness.