Basic Chef Fluency Badge
Demonstrating the ability to discuss and explain Chef concepts and features, and describe Chef to someone who has little to no knowledge of Chef. You understand basic common Chef terminology (e.g. the difference between a cookbook and a recipe) and can answer the questions "why Chef?" and "why Chef Automate?", and can explain the different licensing models and distinguish between Open Source and Chef Automate features. Finally, you are able to convey Chef's basic design philosophy & value proposition.
About Me
A Sysadmin Expert with more than 10 years of hands-on experience in design, and operate infrastructures with thousands of machines in mixed environments of Linux, Unix, and Windows. Expertise and technology stack - Automates provisioning servers with wide ranges of software solutions that include Chef, Ansible, Puppet, Saltstack - Automates application deployment with Ansible, AWX or AWS Opsworks or Chef Automate, and bash script - Creates/manages infrastructure as code with Terraform and CloudFormation - Designs/implements/manages on-premises infrastructures with VMware solutions - Consuls/implements VDI infrastructure with Amazon Workspaces or Paperspace - Migrates servers between heterogeneous platforms (clouds to clouds or clouds to on-premises) - Specializes in Linux, Windows - Specializes in Apache2, NGINX web servers - Specializes in network appliances such as Palo Alto Networks, VyOS, Netgate pfSense, and Cisco switches - Specializes in consulting and implementing Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
