LAB · CONVERGE
Make it idempotent
Fix a cookbook that reports changes on every run.
> Configuration Management · DevOpsSchool Training
Chef Training in Kolkata
Live online batches timed for IST (UTC+5:30), or corporate onsite across Kolkata — every session a live demo in a real lab, not slides.
★ 4.8 / 5 from 2,300+ ratings18,000+ engineers certifiedTrained teams at JPMorgan Chase, Verizon, Nokia, World Bank
Next batch—
TimezoneIST (UTC+5:30)
Modules12
Hands-on labs3
Engineers we've trained work atJPMorgan Chase · Bank of America · Wells Fargo · Verizon · Nokia · World Bank · GE Healthcare · VMware · Oracle · Qualcomm · Mercedes-Benz · Airbus · Datadog · Splunk · Deloitte · Infosys · Wipro · Capgemini
# upcoming batches
When the next Chef batch runs in Kolkata
Times shown in IST (UTC+5:30). New cohorts start on the 1st of every month.
| Starts | Days & time | Timezone | Mode | Duration | Seats | Enrol |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| —Most popular | Weekend · Sat · Sun 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM | IST (UTC+5:30) | Live online · Corporate onsite | 5 weekends | — of 10 left | Reserve |
| — | Weekday · Mon · Wed · Fri 8:00 – 10:00 PM | IST (UTC+5:30) | Live online · Corporate onsite | 5 weeks | — of 10 left | Reserve |
Batches are capped at 10 learners by design. We do not run a classroom in Kolkata — sessions here are live online, or onsite at your office for corporate batches.Need a date that isn't listed? Talk to us about a private batch →
# how you attend
Four ways to take this training — three of them available here
Live online
Individuals, anywhere
Scheduled instructor-led batch. Every session is a live demo in a real lab, and every session is recorded.
Reserve my seatCorporate onsite
Teams of 8–30
Custom agenda built from your stack, delivered at your office or online, in your timezone. NDA-friendly, invoiced against a PO.
Request a quoteSelf-paced video
Self-starters
The full recorded curriculum plus a year of the entire LMS — 20+ courses and 50+ tools, not just this one.
Enroll now# private batches
Private corporate batch for your team
We start with a discovery call, map your stack to the modules below, and drop anything your team already runs in production. Delivery is at your office, online, or hybrid — in your timezone, scheduled around your release calendar.
- Custom agenda built from your stack, not a fixed syllabus
- Teams of 8–30; larger cohorts split into parallel batches
- Recordings, lab repos and per-attendee certificates
- Attendance and assessment report for your L&D team
- PO, GST invoice and NDA handled before delivery
Already know what you need?
Send us the tools, the team size and a rough window. You'll get an agenda and a quote back, not a sales call.
# kolkata
Chef training in Kolkata
Chef training in Kolkata is taken mostly by System administrators automating server configuration and DevOps engineers maintaining an existing Chef estate. Sessions run live online in IST (UTC+5:30), or onsite at your office — there is no Kolkata classroom. Teams here often pair it with our Agile and Ansible training, and a corporate batch can cover more than one in a single engagement. Kolkata's technology employment is concentrated around Sector V and New Town, and the mix skews toward services delivery and back-office engineering for clients elsewhere. That has a direct effect on what a cohort needs: the working environment is usually a client's, the permissions are usually limited, and the value of the training is in being immediately useful inside constraints somebody else set. The city also has a large base of engineers moving into platform work from adjacent roles — support, database administration, application development — rather than arriving with the background already in place. Kolkata cohorts tend to want more time on fundamentals and on the reasoning behind a practice, and less on comparing tools. There is no DevOpsSchool classroom in Kolkata. Batches run live online in IST, which for most learners here is the format that fits around client working hours anyway, or onsite at your office in Sector V for corporate cohorts.
Teams we've trained here
How we deliver in Kolkata
We do not run a classroom in Kolkata. Batches here are live online, or onsite at your office for corporate cohorts.
Our two classrooms are in Bengaluru and Hyderabad.
Where our Kolkata learners come from
- Sector V, Salt Lake
- New Town / Rajarhat
- Park Street
- Bantala IT Park
- Kasba
- Dum Dum
# the subject
What is Chef?
Chef describes a machine's desired state as code. Resources declare what should be true, recipes group resources, cookbooks group recipes, and a run list applies them to a node. Because the language is Ruby, configuration can carry real logic — which is Chef's strength and its main risk. The practices that keep it maintainable are testing and discipline: unit tests with ChefSpec, integration tests with Test Kitchen, and a convention that cookbooks stay small enough to reason about. Without those, a Chef estate becomes a Ruby application nobody wants to maintain.
Why it's in demand now
Chef remains embedded in large enterprises with substantial server estates and long compliance requirements, and those organisations are not migrating quickly. The demand is for engineers who can maintain and test an existing cookbook base, and increasingly who can use Chef InSpec to turn compliance requirements into automated checks.
# outcomes
What you'll be able to do
Write resources and recipes that converge predictably
Structure cookbooks so they stay small and testable
Test with ChefSpec and Test Kitchen before anything reaches a server
Manage node data and attribute precedence without surprises
Express a compliance requirement as an automated InSpec check
# curriculum
12 modules. Live demos in a real lab, not slides.
Every module follows the same shape: 5 hrs · 2 assignments · 1 capstone.
01Overview of SRELive & Interactive
Overview of SRE, Introduction of Configuration Management, Why Configuration Management?, Configuration Management Tools, What is Chef?, Chef Products Overview, Chef Workstation, Chef Infra
02Chef Infra ServerLive & Interactive
Chef Infra Server, Chef Automate, Chef Desktop, Chef Habitat, Chef in-Spec, Chef Supermarket, Why Chef Infra?, Why Chef Infra Server?
03Architecture of Chef Infra client & ServerLive & Interactive
Architecture of Chef Infra client & Server?, Installing Chef Workstation, Chef Workstation Setup, Chef Workstation Configure, Troubleshooting using Chef Workstation, Working with Chef Cookbooks, Understanding Chef infra Resources, Writring & Test first Chef Recipe
04Understanding Cookbook DirectoryLive & Interactive
What is Chef Cookbooks?, Chef commands, Knife commands, About chef-repo, Understanding Cookbook Directory, Attributes, Files, Libraries
05Working with Chef Cookbook TemplateLive & Interactive
metadata.rb, Recipes, Templates, Versioning Cookbooks, Working with Chef Cookbook Template, Working with Chef Cookbook Attributes, Working with Chef Cookbook Libraries, Working with Chef Cookbooks Dependencies
06Chef Infra Server Authentication and AuthorizationLive & Interactive
Top Chef infra Resources, Chef Infra Server Overview, Pre requisite of Chef Infra Server, Setup/Install Chef Infra Server, Configure Chef Infra Server, Chef Infra Server Authentication and Authorization, Authentication Methods, Authorization Methods
07Working with Chef SupermarketLive & Interactive
Server Users, Organizations & Groups, Using Chef Infra Server, Uploading the Cookbook, Bootstrap Linux Nodes, Bootstrap Windows Nodes, Running the Cookbooks, Working with Chef Supermarket
08Overview of DevOpsLive & Interactive
Overview of DevOps, Deep Dive into Chef Infra, Chef Infra Configrations, Chef Infra Features, Chef Solo, Compliance Phase, Ohai, Handlers
09Chef Infra PolicyLive & Interactive
Search, Chef Infra Policy, About Policy, About Policyfiles, Policyfile.rb, Data Bags, Run-lists, Environments
10Chef Infra IntegrationsLive & Interactive
Roles, Chef Infra Integrations, Chef Infra Security, Chef Infra Language, Using Connditioning in Recipe, Using Looping in Recipe, Operators in Chef Infra Language, Functions in Chef Infra Language
11Logging & TroubleshoitingLive & Interactive
Using Dependencies in Recipe, Checking Platforms, Cookbook Execution, Editing Resources, Logging & Troubleshoiting, Node Tags, Reading Data Bags, Reading Registry Keys, Managing Windows servers using Chef Infra server
12Understanding Chef Custom ResourcesLive & Interactive
Chef Infra Server Manage, Backup and Restore, Backend Failure Recovery, Monitor, Tuning, Log Files, Understanding Chef Custom Resources, Write a Custom Resource
★Final certification examLive & Interactive
Open-book, scenario-based, taken in the LMS. Two free re-attempts and detailed feedback.
# hands-on
3 labs you build on your own cloud account
We don't hand out a sandbox that expires. You provision your own free-tier environment with our guidance, so the setup skill goes with you.
LAB · TEST
Catch it before the server does
Add ChefSpec and Kitchen coverage that fails on a real regression.
LAB · COMPLY
Turn the policy into a check
Express three written controls as InSpec tests and run them against a host.
# toolchain
The tools you'll actually touch
Chef InfraCookbooksRecipesTest KitchenChefSpecInSpecOhaiBerkshelfChef Automate
Who this is for
- System administrators automating server configuration
- DevOps engineers maintaining an existing Chef estate
- Compliance engineers automating controls
- Teams standardising build-out across many servers
Pre-requisites
- Comfortable on a Linux shell
- Some Ruby, or willingness to read it
- Understanding of what your servers do
How you're assessed
- Two assignments per module, reviewed by the instructor
- One capstone per module, pushed to your own GitHub
- 3 hours · online · open-book · scenario-based
- Two free re-attempts, with feedback
# pricing
Pick the level of support that fits
Self-paced video
₹833/mo
billed yearly ₹9,996
All recorded sessions, labs and the full LMS — at your own pace.
- Full 100+ hour recorded curriculum
- Hands-on capstones on your own cloud lab
- 1-year access — recordings, labs and updates
- 3-hr online open-book exam
- Certificate on completion
- Lifetime forum support
- Full LMS access — 20+ courses & 50+ tools
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Live & Interactive
₹34,999₹49,999SAVE 30%
works out to ₹2,917/moIllustrative monthly equivalent. The full amount is charged once at enrolment; we do not offer instalments.
5-week live cohort plus the complete LMS bundle.
- Everything in Self-paced
- 5-week cohort · 60+ hrs live instructor classes
- Weekly mentor office hours
- Cohort community and alumni access
- Capstone code review by the instructor
- Exam preparation and mock papers
- Lifetime forum support
- Full LMS access — 20+ courses & 50+ tools
1-on-1 Mentorship
₹99,999
works out to ₹8,333/moIllustrative monthly equivalent. The full amount is charged once at enrolment; we do not offer instalments.
A dedicated senior practitioner. Pace, schedule and labs tailored to you.
- Everything in Live & Interactive
- Private 1-on-1 instructor on your schedule
- Custom curriculum and labs for your stack
- Résumé and LinkedIn review
- Mock interview and salary negotiation prep
- Priority response from the instructor
- Lifetime forum support
- Full LMS access — 20+ courses & 50+ tools
+ GST 18% as applicable · Prices are charged in INR.
Cohort-cancellation refund
If we cancel or postpone a cohort and you decline the rescheduled session, you get a 100% refund within 15 days. Refund policy →
Terms & course material
Recordings, slides and lab repos are licensed to you for your own learning. Terms →
Your data stays with us
We don't share your details with third parties. Privacy →
# who teaches it
Taught by practitioners who run this in production
Rajesh Kumar — Principal DevOps Engineer & Architect
Twenty years across DevOps, SRE and security, in principal and architect roles at PayPay, SoftwareAG, ServiceNow, Intuit, Adobe and IBM. Has personally trained more than 10,000 engineers at JPMorgan Chase, Verizon, Nokia, the World Bank and dozens more. He teaches what he runs, not what he reads.
The wider faculty
# the credential
What you walk away with
- An industry-recognised digital certificate, verifiable on our site
- One capstone per module, public on your own GitHub
- A hard copy on request
- Lifetime access to the DevOpsSchool forum
Certificate of Completion
Your Name
Chef Training in Kolkata
DS-CHEF-XXXX-XXXX
# reviews
What learners say
4.8 / 5 from 2,300+ ratings.
Reviews for this program are being collected from public sources. Every review shown here links to the original.
# alternatives
How this compares
| What matters | YouTube + blogs | Generic online course | Local training institute | DevOpsSchool |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Teaching method | Unstructured, no sequence | Pre-recorded slides | Slide-led classroom | Live demos in a real lab |
| Batch size | n/a | Unlimited | 30–60 | Capped at 10 |
| Lab environment | Yours to figure out | Shared sandbox that expires | Shared lab | You build your own — the skill goes with you |
| Per-tool structure | None | Video only | Varies | 5 hrs · 2 assignments · 1 capstone |
| Assessment | None | Quiz | Attendance | 3 hours · online · open-book · scenario-based |
| Certificate | None | Auto-issued | Attendance certificate | Industry-recognised, verifiable |
| Corporate invoicing | No | Card only | Sometimes | PO, GST invoice, NDA |
| Post-training support | None | Forum for 30 days | None | Lifetime forum support |
| Total cost | Free, and it costs you months | Low, low completion | High | One fee, LMS included |
# questions
Frequently asked questions
Do you run classroom batches in Kolkata?
No. We do not have a training centre in Kolkata, and we would rather say so than let you plan a commute. Batches here run live online, or onsite at your own office for corporate cohorts. Our two classrooms are in Bengaluru and Hyderabad.
What time do the sessions run in Kolkata?
Sessions run in IST (UTC+5:30), which is local time for you: the weekend cohort at 10:00–13:00 on Saturday and Sunday, and the weekday cohort at 20:00–22:00 on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Most Kolkata learners take the weekend batch because it does not collide with a release window.
Where do your Kolkata learners usually travel from?
Most Kolkata attendees work in Sector V, Salt Lake, New Town / Rajarhat, Park Street, Bantala IT Park, Kasba or Dum Dum. We mention it because there is no Kolkata classroom to travel to: batches run live online, and for corporate cohorts we come to your office in whichever of those areas you are in.
Is the Chef content different for Kolkata?
The curriculum is the same everywhere — it is the same course, and pretending otherwise would be dishonest. What changes for Kolkata is delivery: the batch times are set for IST (UTC+5:30), fees are shown in INR, and delivery is live online or onsite at your office rather than in a classroom. The examples our instructors reach for also tend to follow what Kolkata teams actually run.
Do you provide a lab environment for Chef?
No, and that is deliberate. You build the labs on your own free-tier account, and we walk through the setup and the cost guardrails in week one. A sandbox that expires when the course ends teaches you nothing you keep; your own environment does.
What if I miss a session?
Every session is recorded and available in the LMS the same day, and you keep access for a year. You can also sit the missed session again with the next cohort at no extra cost.
What do I need to know before starting Chef?
Comfortable on a Linux shell; Some Ruby, or willingness to read it; Understanding of what your servers do. If you are unsure whether you are ready, tell us what you work on now and we will give you a straight answer rather than a sales one.
Is there a certificate, and is it worth anything?
You get an industry-recognised DevOpsSchool certificate after the three-hour open-book exam. Most people find the capstone repositories carry more weight in an interview than the certificate itself, which is why the labs are built to be shown.
Can you run Chef as a private batch for our team?
Yes. We build the agenda from your stack after a discovery call and drop anything your team already runs in production. Teams of 8 to 30 work best; larger groups split into parallel batches.
What is your refund policy?
If we cancel or postpone a cohort and you decline the rescheduled session, you get a full refund within 15 days. We do not offer a general money-back guarantee, and taxes and gateway fees are not refunded.
Do you offer instalments or EMI?
No. The fee is charged once at enrolment. Where we show a monthly figure it is arithmetic to help you size the cost against a budget, not a payment plan.
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