Chef Automate Compliance Training

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Course description

In the instructor-led Chef Automate compliance course, you will learn how to use the Chef Automate compliance UI, perform compliance scans against Windows and Linux nodes, and remediate compliance issues.

In addition, you will learn how to use InSpec, Chef’s open source testing framework for infrastructure. You will create and modify compliance profiles and also locate Department of Defense (DoD) compliance specifications that you can use as a basis for an InSpec compliance profile.  You will also learn how to use the Chef audit cookbook, which allows you to run InSpec profiles as part of the chef-client run. This course includes hands-on exercises to reinforce the material.

Course objectives

In this course, you will learn to:

How can you ensure that your systems are secure without slowing down your deployments? With Chef Automate compliance, you express your security requirements as code and automate the assessment and remediation of your infrastructure.

Intended audience

This course is intended for:

• Sysops and developers who want to learn the basics of automated testing with Chef

Prerequisites

It’s best that learners have some familiarity with:

• Writing code (of just about any flavor) in a text editor such as Atom, Visual Studio Code
• Working on the command line

Activities

This course includes:

• Training with instructor
• Practical exercises

This course provides activities that allow you to test new skills and apply knowledge through practical exercises.

Course duration / Price

• 1 day / € 750.00 (excl. tax) per person (DE)

Course outline

• 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
• Applying compliance frameworks using InSpec (translating DoD specifications into compliance tests)
• Scheduling scans and running reports
• Managing users, organizations, teams and permissions

IMPORTANT: Please bring your notebook (Windows, Linux or Mac) to our trainings. If this is not possible, please contact us in advance.

Course materials are in English, the trainer’s language is German.