Final Exam: Core DevOps Tools

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

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  Describe the key features and components of chef habitat and how it works together with other chef offerings
  

  describe the different use cases for the chef platform, their features, and how they differ
  

  describe the pre-requisites of the chef platform and system requirements for different chef offerings
  

  describe the differences between chef and ansible as well as how they can work together
  

  describe the key features and components of chef automate and how it works together with other chef offerings
  

  install various chef products, perform setup tasks, and apply basic configurations
  

  troubleshoot various types of issues that may occur while using the chef platform
  

  describe the benefits as well as potential drawbacks of chef and its software solutions
  

  automate application configuration, management, packaging, and delivery across applications and environments
  

  test and audit applications and infrastructure with singular and plural resources
  

  identify the role of the jenkins software and its limitations
  

  explain the integration between jenkins and docker
  

  explain the integration between jenkins and git
  

  explain the integration between jenkins and email
  

  identify how to build jobs in jenkins
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  perform jenkins installation
  

  describe jenkins installation
  

  create a jenkins build
  

  secure a jenkins environment
  

  describe jenkins fingerprints and artifacts
  

  describe the basics of what ansible is, its features, and its benefits
  

  describe playbooks, how to use them, and their basic syntax and structure
  

  describe the key features of the ansible tower and how it differs from the ansible engine
  

  describe the uses of ansible vault, how to encrypt an existing file, and how to utilize encrypted variables
  

  describe the tools used with ansible and the commands associated with the command line tools
  

  select an ansible package, install it, and be able to upgrade it when necessary
  

  configure ansible using the configuration file and environment variables
  

  create an inventory, add and group variables, and verify the inventory
  

  work with various types of variables and know how to define them
  

  use the command line interface to execute common options