Chef - Making CerealThe files are in the computer!

- Derek Zoolander

High Level Elements• It’s Ruby!

• Recipes

• Cookbooks

• Roles

• Environments

• LWRP - Light Weight Resource Providers

• Data Bags

• TDD

–Also DZ

“There's more to life than being really really ridiculously good looking.”

Vision• Get what you want when you want it

• dev box for [ios, ruby, c#, java, etc]

• Jenkins

• Demo Server

• QA Servers

• Disposable Environment

• Custom Git server (w/ssh keys! netrc file, what’s that?!)

• Automation - workstation and server configuration

• Consistency - All things created, and maintained by the same thing

• Self documenting - Decrease knowledge silos, out of date documentation

• Shared and transferrable work - Less rework across projects

• Disposable infrastructure - easier development and experimentation

• Continuous Integration - Of your entire system!

Life is Hard• Slow Start

• High learning curve

• Organizational Momentum

• Ruby

• Chef Paradigms

• Windows automation

• Idempotence

Sharing & Learning• More Lunch & Learns

• Sync group - Chef

• Shared central documentation

• Asynchrony Chef Server to share resources

• Core Group of Devs

• Guru time

• Other Ideas?

What’s Next?Topics of Interest:

• How to do Ruby

• Microsoft Windows automation

• Learn from Case study (magnet tester, ionic mobile)

• Testing & CI with Chef

• Chef Solo vs Chef Server

• Sharing Cookbooks & Documentation

• Learn from Cloud development

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