Table of Contents for Learning Chef

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- [X] Preface
- [X] From Zero to Basic Chef
  - [X] Installing Chef Client
    - [X] Installing Chef Client on Linux
    - [X] Installing Chef Client on Mac OS X
    - [X] Installing Chef Client on Windows
  - [X] Installing a programmer's editor
  - [X] Creating a directory structure for your code
  - [X] Writing your first Chef recipe
  - [X] Chef Client Modes
  - [X] Examining hello.rb
  - [X] Recipes specify _what_ not _how_
  - [X] To uninstall, specify what _not_ to do
- [X] Managing Virtual Machines with Test Kitchen
  - [X] Installing Vagrant and VirtualBox
  - [X] Installing Unix Tools (Windows Only)
  - [X] Installing Test Kitchen
  - [X] Spinning up your first virtual machine
  - [X] Chef Solo Provisioner
  - [X] Nodes
  - [X] YAML Overview
  - [X] Test Kitchen configuration with .kitchen.yml
- [X] Cookbook Authoring and Use
  - [X] Cookbook Structure
  - [X] Creating a motd cookbook
  - [X] Introducing the cookbook_file resource
  - [X] Performing your first converge
  - [X] Validating your results
  - [x] Leveraging Community Cookbooks
  - [x] Authoring Cookbooks
  - [x] A couple recipe examples
- [ ] Ruby and Chef Syntax
  - [ ] Overview of Ruby using Chef Shell
  - [ ] Ruby Syntax and Examples
  - [x] Chef Syntax and Examples
- [ ] Resource Use
- [ ] Resources and Providers
  - [ ] What is a Resource?
  - [ ] What is a Provider?
  - [ ] Using custom Providers
  - [ ] Why write an LWRP?
- [ ] Chef Server
  - [ ] Open Source Chef Server
  - [ ] On-Premises Enterprise Chef
  - [ ] Hosted Enterprise Chef
- [ ] Bootstrapping
  - [x] Anatomy of a Chef run
  - [ ] Chef Handlers
  - [ ] Registering a node
  - [ ] Basic knife usage
  - [ ] Viewing the node in Enterprise Chef (via command line and web ui)
  - [ ] Deleting a node
- [ ] Attributes/Roles/Environments
  - [ ] Understanding attribute precedence
  - [ ] Overriding attributes in {cookbooks, roles, environments, on the node}
  - [ ] Roles
  - [ ] Using roles as tags (for searching)
  - [ ] Environments
- [ ] Auditing Chef
  - [ ] Report Handlers
  - [ ] Exception Handlers
  - [ ] Enterprise Chef Reporting
- [ ] Chef Search
  - [ ] Understanding the difference between what's on the local workstation and what's on Chef Server
  - [ ] Searching from the command line
  - [ ] Searching in recipes
  - [ ] Indexing for Berkshelf
- [ ] Data Bags
  - [ ] Basic
  - [ ] Encrypted Data Bags
  - [ ] chef-vault
  - [ ] Searching
  - [ ] Using Data Bags in recipes
- [ ] Deploying Applications with Chef
  - [ ] Deploy entirely using Chef
  - [ ] Packaging
  - [ ] knife-spork
- [ ] Community
  - [ ] chef-client Cookbook
  - [ ] Extending community cookbooks
  - [ ] Pull Requests
  - [ ] Getting support from Chef Software
- [ ] Appendix A - Alternative Test Kitchen Plugins
  - [ ] Run Chef in a Cloud Provider
    - [X] DigitalOcean (kitchen-digitalocean)
    - [ ] Amazon EC2 (kitchen-ec2)
    - [ ] Google Cloud Engine (kitchen-gce)
    - [ ] Rackspace (kitchen-rackspace)
  - [ ] Run Chef in a Container
    - [ ] LXC (kitchen-lxc)
    - [ ] Docker (kitchen-docke