Ask HN: Interested in a course on automating a WordPress server with Chef?

[csdreamer7]

Ask HN: Interested in a course on automating a WordPress server with Chef?

Hey guys,

I just wanted to gauge interest in a 2 hour course that goes over automating maintenance on a WordPress course with Chef.

I go over the following: Installing Ruby by RVM, Setting up Chef, Running a Terminal Command in Chef, handling repo failures, handling upgrades that require prompts, setting passwords for users (I use a public key, but also cover passwords), setting settings and variables, and, a little debugging of Chef scripts.

I think the course will be focused only on a single WordPress server, spun by Digital Ocean. WordPress installation would not be covered because I believe most people already have WordPress servers they would like to automate. But feel free to tell me otherwise with what you want to see.

Questions: 1) Would you be interested? 2) Would you pay for it if it was good? 3) Are you interested in automation/where do you get your automation information now?

Giving credit for the idea to ask HN to this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13153414

[mda590]

I'd definitely be interested in this and would absolutely pay for it. I am finding it difficult to really get a grasp on Chef since it seems like it's constantly evolving, and no one has really come out with a good course on it. Learning about Chef in the context of an actual application deployment would be useful, I imagine.

[csdreamer7 → mda590]

Excellent, glad to hear it. Would you please send me an email to johnwyatt attt wyatttechcourses.com

You might be interested in my older books.

https://leanpub.com/b/deploying2014bundle

But, they are older and I have not tested them in a while. One is a full Rails book that covers setting up Ruby with RVM (on the server), Postgresql and fetching the app from a private git repo (bitbucket). The other is a smaller companion book that shows how to setup WordPress with Postgresql.

Let me know in the email if you would be interested in Rails as well WordPress.