Intro to Chef

Introduction to Chef configuration management

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB4QRr3SMes

Transcript

1. Intro to Chef Christopher M Luciano
2. Me • Christopher M Luciano • Software Engineer, Developer Productivity Team @IBM • Twitter cmluciano_ • Email cmluciano@dragoon.io • Github github.com/cmluciano
3. Problem? • Lots of machines • Various software components • Multiple operating systems • No documentation/out-of-date documentation
4. Installing/Configuring Services
5. Developer Workstations https://github.com/r8/vagrant-lamp
6. This Seems Like a Job For… https://github.com/lavoiesl/mysql-bash-scripts/blob/master/create https://github.com/major/MySQLTuner-perl/blob/master/mysqltuner.pl
7. The Chef Way Gotta be a better way, a better way, yaaaaa Wanna Be A Baller. Prod. Bruce Rhodes. Perf. Lil Troy. Short Stop Records, 1998. Youtube. Vevo, 16 June 2009. Web. 14 Feb. 2015. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InGtiEXQyF0>
8. Chef • Framework for defining your infrastructure as code • Assists in automating tasks like setting up machine services or deploying code
9. Why Chef? • Written in a common language (Ruby) • Acts as a framework not a cookie-cutter • Can be configured for push or pull model (ya it scales) • Extensive Community (Your cookbook probably already exists)
10. Architecture https://sendgrid.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/ chef-basic-installation-500x514.png
11. Cookbook • “A cookbook is the fundamental unit of configuration and policy distribution.” • Defines a scenario and contains everything that is required to support that scenario
12. Demo
13. Where to Go From Here • https://learn.chef.io/index.html • Intro to Chef by Mischa Taylor, Seth Vargo • Customizing Chef Jon Cowie
14. Thank you • Twitter @cmluciano_ • Email cmluciano@dragoon.io • Github github.com/cmluciano