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• Daniel DeLeo - github, twitter
• Jason Reslock - github, twitter
• John Deatherage - github, twitter
• Jon Cowie github, twitter, blog
• Serdar Sutay - github, twitter
• Tara Hernandez - githubtwitter, irc: tequilarista
• Joshua Timberman - github, twitter, blog
• Mike Fiedler - github, twitter, blog
• Nathen Harvey - github, twitter, irc: nathenharvey, blog

Outline

Chef News

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• DevOpsDays

  • Toronto - September 12 & 13
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  • Berlin - October 23 & 24
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There are also a number of classes being offered online.

Show Notes

Here’s a brief outline of some of the things we discussed:

• Intro to ChefDK
  • The Chef Development Kit (ChefDK)
  • What’s in the box?
    • Berkshelf 3.0
    • Test Kitchen
    • ChefSpec
    • Foodcritic
    • All the Chef tools you’d usually install on a workstation: knife, ohai, chef-client, chef-zero
    • New command-line tool called chef
• Working with Ruby Gemfiles
  • Simplifying the tool chain
• Why is it called “Chef”?
• What does typing Chef actually do?
• Using ChefDK
  • Using the chef command
    • verify
    • Some glue commands - exec, gem, and shell-init
• Chef for Beginners and New Users
• The chef generate Command
  • What does it do?
  • How does it work?
  • generate
    • coobkook
    • recipe
    • attribute
    • template
    • file
    • lwrp
    • app
• The Future of ChefDK
  • Implementing a Test Command in ChefDK
  • Policyfile.rb
  • Release Cycle, Upgrade Paths, etc. Expectancy
  • ChefDK and Windows/Cross Platform Compatability
    • Chef Docs Repo: https://github.com/opscode/chef-docs
• Supported operating systems - As of version 0.2.1 the following Operating Systems are supported:
  • Mac OS X 10.8, 10.9
  • Windows 7, 8, 8.1 & Server 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2
  • Ubuntu Linux 12.04, 13.10
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
• Upcoming: The Policy File

Commands to install ChefDK from command line: * Install latest released version - curl -L https://www.getchef.com/chef/install.sh | sudo bash -s -- -P chefdk * Install nightly build - curl -L https://www.getchef.com/chef/install.sh | sudo bash -s -- -P chefdk -n

Picks

• Daniel DeLeo - github, twitter
• Jason Reslock - github, twitter
• Jon Cowie github, twitter, blog
• John Deatherage - github, twitter
• Serdar Sutay - github, twitter
• Tara Hernandez - twitter
• Joshua Timberman - github, twitter, blog
• Mike Fiedler - github, twitter, blog
• Nathen Harvey - github, twitter, irc: nathenharvey, blog

Dan

• Seattle Reign - website
• Spaced

Jason

• Test Driven Infrastructure with Chef
• Exercism.io

Jon

• Seth Vargo’s cleanroom gem
• Customizing Chef by Jon Cowie

Jonathan

• vagrantcloud.com/juniper

Serdar

• The New Version of ChefDK
• Commands to install ChefDK from command line:
  • Install latest released version - curl -L https://www.getchef.com/chef/install.sh | sudo bash -s -- -P chefdk
  • Install nightly build - curl -L https://www.getchef.com/chef/install.sh | sudo bash -s -- -P chefdk -n

Tara

• SkyBase - Finding your way in Hybrid Clouds

Joshua

• ChefDK and Ruby
• Tim Sutton’s OS X templates for Packer and VeeWee
• Bento packer definitions for os x
• Ruby Rogues podcast Episode 169 - Version Managers with Michal Papis, Mislav Maronić and Postmodern Mod III *

Mike

• dvm - Effortless Docker-in-a-box for unsupported Docker platforms, like the Mac
• kitchen-docker - A Test Kitchen Driver for Docker
• Arrested DevOps - Awesome podcast!

Nathen

• Seth Vargo
• Help @stevenmurawski find the best Food Fight Show episodes! Tweet you favorites with hashtag #feedsteven

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