Food Fight

The Podcast where DevOps chefs do battle

Jamie Winsor and Michael Ivey Skool Us on Berkshelf

Show Date: Thursday August 1st, 18:00 (Rome) 12:00 Alabama 09:00 LA

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In the News

  • Mission Accomplished! Jordan Sissel has a new gig at Dreamhost working full-time on logstash He blogged about what he intends to do to grow logstash’s value for both new and existing users.

  • Seth Vargo has released the first non-alpha version of fauxhai the node-mocking gem. This version implements the fetch feature, which allows you to download ohai data from a real remote node and run your tests against that data.

  • Greg Albrecht Kim released a cookbook-style-guide check the show notes for a link to the github repo.

  • The team over at Boundary has released small wonder, a deployment tool. It’s a lightweight wrapper around salticid Small Wonder is a means for using Salticid and Chef together to deploy applications. Small Wonder consumes your knife.rb so has access to anything that any other chef-client can access, including Chef search.

  • Joshua Timberman’s written up another blog post about OS X Workstation Management With Chef He’s written on this topic twice before. This article is actually a rewrite of the original and now has an accompanying Chef repo.

  • Speaking of provisioning laptops’s with Chef, Seth Vargo’s back with part 2 of his series on the subject check out the post over on the CustomInk Engineering blog - EngineerInk

  • David Golden posted his Oscon Slides on Cooking Perl with Chef Chedk the show notes for a link.

  • Ever find yourself looking for something beautiful that’s been artisinally hand-crafted, you know, like an Integer? Well, fear not! Checkout Brooklyn Integers it’s an IaaS (Integer as a Service) a simple API for generating and retrieving integers. If you think the integers in Brooklyn are a bit odd (pun intended), visit the San Fransisco branch: Mission Integers.

  • Jeffrey Snover was recently interviewed on the RunAs Radio podcast about his blog post Windows Server 2012, PowerShell 3.0 and DevOps

Upcoming Events and Meetup Groups

  • Infrastructure Coders meet up in Melbourne Australia, created by Matt Jones and David Lutz, next meetup will be August 14 and focus on the topic of Infrastructure as Code

  • DevOpsDC - Cooking with Chef If you’re in the DC area, be sure to swing by TaxiMagic’s HQ on Tuesday, August 14th to meet-up with other Chef enthusiasts.

  • The Bay Area Chef User Group will be hosting Chef Cafe on Thursday, August 16.

  • DevOps Days Rome will be October 5-6. The call for papers is open now!

Cookbook News

New Cookbooks

  • awstats v0.2.2 - madolphs This cookbook installs awstats and provides an LWRP to setup awstats for a service of your choice.

  • VRTSralus v0.0.2 - lucky-sideburn Installs/Configures VRTSralus through the installation script. VRTSralus is better known as Symantec Backup Exec for linux. This cookbook was written to resolve a strange problem with the installation through RPM.

  • pkgin v0.1.0 - someara This cookbook is used to install packages on Unix systems with the pkgin utility. pkgin is aimed at being an apt / yum like tool for managing pkgsrc binary packages.

  • riot_mysql v1.2.8 - reset A fork of the Opscode MySQL cookbook which fixes a severe bug with installing the MySQL gem on CentOS platforms.

  • jmxtrans v0.0.3 - bryanwb We talked about jmxtrans in the last episode, it’s now available on the community site. Thanks, Bryan!

Updated Cookbooks

Do you have cookbook news that you’d like to share or feedback on the show? Please drop a line to info@foodfightshow.org

Bryan’s show notes

  • Michael and jamie work on Deployment Automation team at RiotGames
  • They make heavy use of github enterprise, can do a pull request w/out forking
  • They spend a lot of time evangelizing and teaching chef w/in org
  • Their devs very receptive to Chef
  • Only build server can upload cookbook, and it revs each version after every successful build
  • they don’t use roles at all, because
    • not versioned
    • better to use wrapper cookbook instead of role
  • current patterns for chef only maintainable w/ a small team
  • what benefits of small team to follow your pattern?
  • Jamie is working on “cookbook development for application developers”

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Bryan

Nathen

Michael

Jamie

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