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Panel
- Dylan Northrup twitter, github, blog
- Kris Buytaert twitter, github, blog
- John Vincent, aka Lusis twitter, github
- Julian Dunn twitter, github
- Tom Robison twitter
- Bryan Berry github, twitter, irc: bryanwb, blog: devopsanywhere
- Nathen Harvey github, twitter, irc: nathenharvey, blog
Outline
FOSDEM & Configuration Management Camp EU
Kris joins us to discuss FOSDEM and the Configuration Management Camp conferences. CFP for the FOSDEM Configuration Management Dev Room closes on 8 Dec and the CFP for Configuration Management Camp closes on 15 December. Submit your talks today!
Fletcher Nichol and Test Kitchen 1.0! Check out the Getting Started Guide!
- Introductions
- Best Practices
- Whipuptitude! i.e. the aptitude for whipping things up
- Reasonability
- Sane Defaults
- Flexibility
- Manipulexity - Manipulation of Complex Things
- Shuhari
- shu - “obey” - traditional wisdom
- ha - “detach” - break with tradition
- ri - “separate” - transcend
- first learn, then detach, and finally transcend
- Ruby DSL or JSON DSL?
- Roles
- Environments
- Metadata
- Use Roles or not?
- Should an individual node have more than one item in its run-list?
- Nesting Roles
- Environment Specific Run-lists
- Getting Help
- Source Code Management
- is git THE answer?
- Attirbute precedence levels - there are 15. Which should be used / avoided?
- Scalar Values, Arrays & Hashes
- Databags & Sensitive Data
- Use or not?
- Encrypted Data Bags - when, where, and how is it appropriate to use them?
- Encrypted Data Bags, Chef Vault - how to decide best solution?
- Food Fight Show on Chef Vault
- Community / Reusable Cookbooks
- Are reusable cookbooks a myth?
- Cross-platform cookbooks?
- Cookbooks without recipes
- Community Cookbooks blog post
- Ruby!
- rbenv, chruby, rvm or omnibus ruby?
Picks
Brandon
Dylan
- Hex TCG - Digital Trading Card Game. Currently in Alpha, but available to folks who backed their Kickstarter and folks who donate.
- Tested.com - Geeky maker focused site done in conjunction with Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman from the Mythbusters.
Kris
- Duvel
- In Search of Certainty - The Science of Our Information Infrastructure by Mark Burgess
- De Gekroonde Hoofden
Julian
Tom
Bryan
- Foodfight Future of DevOps
- Bob Lee’s presentation Engineering Excellence on Square’s technology stack
- Eclipse Moonrise
Nathen
- SCaLE 12x - CFP is closing on 15 December.
- #ChefConf 2014 - CFP closes in mid-January. Ticket prices go up at the end of the calendar year so lock-in the best rate now.
- Community Cookbooks blog post
Fletcher
- The Test Kitchen Getting Started Guide
- serverspec
- The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business also Food Fight Show: The Phoenix Project! =D
Lusis
John
- chef-sugar
- chef-rbenv
- Customizing Chef!
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