Slides from a lunch and learn given at Asynchrony about beginning to learn about Chef.

1. Chef - Making Cereal
The files are in the computer!
- Derek Zoolander

2. High Level Elements
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It’s Ruby!
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Recipes
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Cookbooks
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Roles
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Environments
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LWRP - Light Weight
Resource Providers
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Data Bags
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TDD

3. “There's more to life than being really really
ridiculously good looking.”
–Also DZ

4. Vision
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Get what you want when you want it
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dev box for [ios, ruby, c#, java, etc]
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Jenkins
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Demo Server
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QA Servers
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Disposable Environment
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Custom Git server (w/ssh keys! netrc file, what’s that?!)

5. •
Automation - workstation and server configuration
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Consistency - All things created, and maintained by the
same thing
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Self documenting - Decrease knowledge silos, out of
date documentation
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Shared and transferrable work - Less rework across
projects
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Disposable infrastructure - easier development and
experimentation
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Continuous Integration - Of your entire system!

6. Life is Hard
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Slow Start
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High learning curve
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Organizational Momentum
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Ruby
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Chef Paradigms
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Windows automation
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Idempotence

7. Sharing & Learning
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More Lunch & Learns
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Sync group - Chef
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Shared central documentation
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Asynchrony Chef Server to share resources
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Core Group of Devs
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Guru time
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Other Ideas?

8. What’s Next?
Topics of Interest:
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How to do Ruby
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Microsoft Windows automation
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Learn from Case study (magnet tester, ionic mobile)
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Testing & CI with Chef
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Chef Solo vs Chef Server
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Sharing Cookbooks & Documentation
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Learn from Cloud development

9. Questions or Comments