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LearnChef: Tutorials

A new way to master Chef, DevOps & IT Automation Skills

Advanced guidance tailored to your preferences: Fast, Flexible & Free Start your learning journey

Progress Chef: A Guided Tour

Unsure of where to start your journey? Allow us to guide you through a structured collection of introductory courses on Chef. This tailored path will cover the fundamentals of Chef software products and services, enabling a smooth initiation to your exploration.

Beginning Your Chef Journey

Introduction to Chef products and solutions for the enterprise View Course

Ruby Essentials

An introduction to Ruby: The powerful programming language used to develop industry-leading enterprise applications View Course

Manage Your Fleet with Chef Infra

Introduction to Chef Infra for infrastructure automation View Course

Test Expectations with Chef InSpec

Learn to automate the testing of your systems with Chef InSpec View Course

Deliver Applications with Chef Habitat

Automate application management with Chef Habitat View Course

Secure Your Infrastructure with Chef Automate

Learn to detect & correct compliance failures in your infrastructures automatically View Course

Developer Essentials

Irrespective of your automation engineering interests, these courses impart fundamental developer skills to elevate your proficiency.

Getting Started With Git

An introduction to Git: The most popular distributed version control system loved by developers View Course

Introduction to Ruby Resources

An overview of some of the most popularly used ruby tools: IRB & Pry View Course

Bash Scripting for Beginners

An introduction to Bash Scripting & implementation of real-world scripts View Course

Learning Powershell

Learning PowerShell: As a shell & scripting language View Course

Introduction to DevOps

Learn about DevOps & why is it so popular View Course

Infrastructure Automation

Tailored for engineers focusing on operations and employing Chef to manage and audit vital infrastructure.

Learning Powershell

Learning PowerShell: As a shell & scripting language View Course

Manage Your Fleet with Chef Infra

Introduction to Chef Infra for Infrastructure Automation View Course

Test Expectations with Chef InSpec

Learn to automate the testing of your systems using Chef InSpec View Course

Validate Infrastructure Code with Test Kitchen

Test cookbooks locally before deploying it to your Infrastructure View Course

Extending Chef Infra: Custom Resources

In this intermediate course, discover Chef Infra custom resources -creating files, defining actions, extracting & implementing, & crafting properties View Course

Application Automation

Developers do not need to alter their application writing process to facilitate automation in deployment and management. Instead, they can dive into mastering the packaging and deployment of applications effortlessly.

Deliver Applications with Chef Habitat

Automate application management using Chef Habitat View Course

Continuous Compliance

Make security your primary concern; strengthening security isn't an afterthought. Explore Chef to assist you in creating compliant applications and infrastructure throughout the entire development lifecycle.

Test Expectations with Chef InSpec

Learn to automate the testing of your systems using Chef InSpec View Course

Secure Your Infrastructure with Chef Automate

Learn to automatically detect & correct compliance failures in your infrastructures View Course

Extending InSpec: InSpec Wrappers and Custom Resources

Explore InSpec wrapper profiles & create Chef InSpec custom resources View Course

We’re Better Together!

Chef's strength lies in our incredible community. LearnChef stands as a cornerstone of this vibrant collective. Dive into the Chef community on community.chef.io. Chef community

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Instructor-led Training

Choose from a range of public, private, online, in-person or customized instructor-led training on all Chef products. View Courses

Premium Subscription

Gain a 1-year subscription to all the digitized customer training classes, learn at your own pace, and get complete access to the Chef lab. LearnChef Premium

Certification

Become a certified Chef Expert with two levels of certification: Associate Chef and Executive Chef. LearnChef Certify

Masterclass Series

Elevate your Chef skills with our monthly technical how-to sessions.

Chef Masterclass: Introduction on Chef-client

In this upcoming Progress Chef Masterclass, we're focusing on one of Chef's most versatile and powerful features – Chef-client. Watch Webinar

Unlock the Power of Progress Chef Courier for Effortless Node Management

Unlock the power of Chef Courier Node Management and join our Masterclass Watch Webinar

Chef Masterclass: Streamlining Infrastructure Management Using Progress Chef Attributes

Watch our Chef Masterclass webinar and explore the power of Chef attributes with demo sessions. Watch Webinar

Mastering Multi-Node Configuration with Chef

Watch our Chef Masterclass webinar and learn how to manage the multi-platform architectures with diverse fleet of operating systems using Chef. Watch Webinar

Chef Masterclass: Using Agentless Chef to Manage Cisco Networking Devices

Watch our insightful and practical webinar focused on leveraging Agentless Chef to automate the management of Cisco networking devices. Watch Webinar

Chef Masterclass: Boost Efficiency with Controlled Rollouts Using Chef Courier

Watch our Chef Masterclass webinar and learn how Chef Courier revolutionizes job orchestration across your enterprise infrastructure through a live demo. Watch Webinar

Chef Masterclass: Creating Custom Controls to Suit Your Business Requirements

In this webinar, learn how Chef Compliance can scan different types of operating systems, DBs, Web Servers and different applications via InSpec resources. Watch Webinar

Chef Masterclass: Signed Profiles and InSpec Parallel

Watch our on-demand webinar, during which we will explore two powerful features of Chef InSpec. Watch Webinar

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