Join us as we discuss chef-metal with it’s creator, John Keiser

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• John Keiser github, twitter
• Dafydd Crosby github, twitter, blog
• Matt Wrock github, twitter, blog
• Ranjib Dey github, twitter, blog
• Matt Ray github, twitter, irc: mattray, blog
• Brandon Burton github, twitter
• Nathen Harvey github, twitter, irc: nathenharvey, blog

Outline

Chef News

• Managing Windows Servers with Chef - A new book by John Ewart
• DockerCon - June 9-10
• Chef Fundamentals Webinar Series
• Texas Linux Fest - June 13-14
  • Chef Workshop - June 13
• Austin Chef Meetup - June 18
• Velocity - June 24-26
  • Chef hack day at Velocity
• DevOpsDays Silicon Valley - June 27-28
• Upcoming Training
  • Boston - June 16-17
  • DC - June 18-19
  • Online - Windows class - June 23-25
  • San Francicso - June 25-26
  • London - June 26-27

Show Notes

• chef-metal - A library for creating machines and infrastructures idempotently in Chef.
  • Drivers
  • • Chef Metal: Automate Your Whole Cluster In Chef - #ChefConf 2014 Presentation on Chef Metal
• spiceweasel - Generates Chef knife commands from a simple JSON or YAML file.
  • Clusters
  • Code Smell
• Running Recipes (Provisioning)
• Using chef-metal in action (Use cases)
  • chef-mental and test-kitchen
  • Orchestration
• Getting Started with chef-metal
• Autoscaling
• chef-metal-fog - a Fog provisioner for chef-metal

Picks

John Keiser

• The Berkshelf Internal API
• Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by Less Wrong

Dafydd Crosby

• chef-metal
• OpenBSD
• Test-Driven Infrastructure with Chef: Bring behaviour-driven development to infrastructure as code by Stephen Nelson-Smith

Matt Wrock

• ThinkPad X1 Carbon Ultrabook
• Ubuntu on Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon 2nd

Matt Ray

• Pete Cheslock: 17th Century Shipbuilding and Your Failed Software Project
• James Mickens: Say “Word Count” One More Time
• SoftwareDefinedTalk Podcast, @SoftwareDefTalk
• EmacsATX

Brandon Burton

• Rebuilding a Bird in Flight
• The Riftwar Cycle

Nathen Harvey

• Pittsburgh!
• From Hero to Zero
• chef-metal

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