Introduction to Chef and the Jenkins CI/CD Pipeline Training

• Github-Chef-Jenkins: A DevOps Pipeline

• Course Purpose

• Agenda

• Introductions

• Lab Environments

• Git - Source Control Management

• Chef - Configuration Management

• ChefSpec and Inspec - Cookbook Testing

• Jenkins - Continuous Integration

• An End-To-End CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment) Pipeline

• Purpose and overview of Git

• Use cases for Git

• Git flow

• Quick look at Github

• Other Git providers

• Installation and configuration

• Finding help on Git

• Creating Local Git Repositories

• Basic Commands: add, commit, status, log

• Comparing commits: git diff

• Using a Repository: git push

• Branching and Merging: git branch, git checkout

• Using SSH keys with Git private repositories

• Purpose and overview of Chef

• Resources, Recipes, Cookbooks & Chef Server

• Chef Policyfiles

• Integration Testing with Inspec and Test Kitchen

• Chef Variables: Attributes and Ohai

• Dynamic file creation with Templates

• Using Chef Supermarket and Wrapper cookbooks

• Automating Infrastructure with Chef Search

• Automating Chef Convergence

• Jenkins Overview, Use Cases and History

• Using a Plugin Architecture

• Initializing a Jenkins server

• Projects / Jobs

• Freestyle Jobs

• CI/CD as Code: Pipeline Projects

• Declarative versus Scripted Pipelines

• Distributing builds using Master and Agent Nodes

• Views and Folders

• Managing Credentials

• Integrating with Git: Source Control Management

• Triggers: Webhooks and Polling

• Notifications: Slack

• Testing Chef Cookbooks with Test Kitchen in Jenkins

• Multibranch Pipelines: reading entire repositories

• Using Maven to Compile, Test & Package Java Applications

• Deploying Chef cookbooks with Jenkins

• Using credentials from the Chef Starter Kit

• Uploading cookbooks to Chef Server

• Initiating Chef-managed node convergence from Jenkins