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Be a Master Chef: Crafting Recipes for Reliable...

Kumar Abhijeet
November 03, 2023
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Be a Master Chef: Crafting Recipes for Reliable Infrastructure

Kumar Abhijeet

November 03, 2023
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  1. A G E N D A Chef - What and

    Why How Chef Works Chaos and Standards Solving the chaos puzzle Guiding Principles Future of Chef
  2. Configuration Management Tool Suite Solves the configuration problem in the

    IaC ecosystem Automates deployment and server management Mostly used in VM workloads Chef - What?
  3. Maintaining systems in a desired state Consistent state across all

    systems Enforcing policy and standards Avoid outages by eliminating misconfigurations Configuration Management - What?
  4. Performing System Administration at scale Eliminate human error from systems

    Automated Infra == Resilient Infra Cloud adoption and management made easy Configuration Management - Why?
  5. Idempotence Multiple applications of the same action do not have

    side effects on the system state Doesn’t get added to the resource collection Convergence Bring the system state in line with a defined policy. Changes are made on the system only if they need to be made. Convergence & Idempotence
  6. Idempotent Convergent Idempotent means not taking actions when they aren't

    needed, Convergent means it "settles" on a specific final state. - coderanger(aka Noah Kantrowitz)