Join us as we discuss Packer with Mitchell Hashimoto

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Panel

• Mitchell Hashimoto github, twitter
• Brandon Burton github, twitter
• Bryan Berry github, twitter, irc: bryanwb, blog: devopsanywhere
• John Vincent, aka Lusis twitter, github
• Mike Fiedler github, twitter, blog
• Nathen Harvey github, twitter, irc: nathenharvey, blog

Chef News

• Infrastructure upgrades with Chef - A blog post from Etsy on how they roll-out minor changes to their infrastructure using knife-spork and knife-flip. The post also details how they roll-out larger changes with feature flags using chef-whitelist, a library cookbook for implementing feature flags.
• We are the Operations team at Etsy. Ask us anything! - A Q&A session with the Operations team at Etsy run via reddit.
• The Importance of Dependency Testing

• Awesome Community Chef: Mike Fiedler – “Roller Derbies & Cookbook Versions”

• Opscode Community Summit - Join us November 12-13 in Seattle to share your ideas, triumphs, and challenges with Chef or other personal projects. Space is limited so register today!

Outline

• Chef News
• Introductions
• HashiCorp
• The State of Vagrant
• What is Packer
• Developing Packer
• The Go Programming Language
• JSON
• Creating Images/Virtual Boxes
• veewee
• veewee-to-packer
• Packer Workflow:
  • Download Packer
  • Write your template
  • Builder brings up a machine
  • Provisioner installs software (upload files, chef, puppet, etc.)
  • Builder shuts thing down and packages things up
  • With the template you run packer build
  • Artifacts
  • Builders produce artifact your template
  • Post-processor takes an artifact and outputs a new artifact
  • Builds
• Mistakes made in Vagrant
• Work on Packer vs work on Vagrant
• Is Packer Stable?
• Is the Chef Provisioner Included with the Packer Distribution?
• Contributors
• Parallel Builds Feature
• Editing a configuration and building packer images workflow
• rpc
• Box Versioning

Picks

Mitchell

• Mozilla
  • Rust
    • Rust for Rubyists
  • Firefox OS
  • Servo
• Napa Valley

Brandon

• John Willis
• Gene Kim

Bryan

• Go for System Administrators
• Elixir Design Goals

John

• Soundfreaq
• DevOpsDays Atlanta
• Where’s My Water

Mike

• DevOpsDays NYC
• Duolingo

Nathen

• Surge
• Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference
• Raging Bitch - Belgian-style IPA

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