Presentation from Jon Cowie, Staff Operations Engineer at Etsy

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How I ended up being left in charge of Chef

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Jon Cowie
Staff Operations Engineer

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2010, working at

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Close encounters of the #hugops kind
Joshua Timberman
@jtimberman
(Gives awesome hugs)

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The Cheffening

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Too much Firefightening

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It’s a Chef system - I know this!

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“Hmm, this doesn’t work
quite the way I want it to…”

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…so I started writing
and open sourcing tools.

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Sometimes, I talk about
the problems I’ve been
trying to solve…

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…and sometimes I get
a bit carried away.

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And it’s all because of (and
for) the Chef community.

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“The community is
changing…builders are
becoming consumers.”
(Thought leadership by @nathenharvey)

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Your perspective is more
important than ever!

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And with Chef, you have the
power.

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The Chef Community
▪ All roles open to everybody
▪ “RFC” driven
▪ Weekly meetings to discuss RFCs
▪ Chef employees don’t get any more power than we do
▪ You can work on the overall project, or things you
specifically care about

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Project Lead
▪ Adam Jacob (usually)
▪ Resolves disputes
▪ Provides vision and roadmap
▪ Has universal veto power
▪ There can be only one

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Chef Components
▪ Core, testing, OS-specific etc
▪ People who most care
▪ Maintainers have full agency
▪ Lt exists to resolve disputes
▪ Lt also has veto power
(AFAIK never used thus far)

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Chef RFCs
▪ “Request for Comment”
▪ Can be proposed by anybody
▪ RFC editors help guide you through the process
▪ Once approved, anyone can implement
▪ Proposal doesn’t mean *you* have to implement it

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So, what do I do?
▪ RFC Editor
▪ Redhat / CentOS Lieutenant
▪ Maintainer for Redhat and Core components
▪ These are the things I care most about
▪ I got involved to “safeguard” those things

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“I want to go on holiday for a
month. Would you be
project lead while I’m
away?”
- Adam Jacob, 2015

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“Hi Barry, I’m in
charge of your
product for a
month”
- me, ChefConf 2015

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That is how much Chef trust
and empower us to make it
what we want it to be.

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And we need your help!

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Thanks!
Questions?
@jonlives / http://jonliv.es / jon@etsy.com