The Eight-Fingered Chef

Watch it online: http://confreaks.com/videos/2633-madisonruby2013-the-eight-fingered-chef

Chef is a great tool for managing a vast and complicated server infrastructure, but what if you have fewer servers than fingers? What if you just want a simple little box to host a Rack app? Maybe a staging server to match or a CI server? With little or no prior knowledge of Chef, you can set up a server fairly quickly if you know the right way to set up your kitchen. (They don’t make it obvious. I’ve lost a few fingers in the process.) We’ll walk through the basics of Vagrant, Chef-solo, Knife-solo, and using community cookbooks.

Transcript of live coding: https://gist.github.com/jgarber/6328999

Presented by Jason Garber at Madison Ruby Conf. https://www.promptworks.com

Transcript

1. The Eight- Fingered Chef Jason Garber
4. Infrastructure Automation
5. Web App
6. Web App PostgreSQL
7. Web App PostgreSQL ElasticSearch
8. Web App PostgreSQL ElasticSearch Memcached
9. Web App PostgreSQL ElasticSearch Memcached Sidekiq
10. Web App PostgreSQL ElasticSearch Memcached Sidekiq API API API
15. Infrastructure as Code
17. DECLARATIVE I D E M P O T E N T CONVERGENT
18. package "cowsay" user "jason" do comment "Jason Garber" uid "4545" gid "staff" shell "/bin/bash" end directory "/etc/datacenter" do mode 0755 owner "jason" group "staff" action :create end
19. Environment Node Node Environment Node Node Node Environment Node Node Role Recipe Recipe Cookbook Recipe Recipe Cookbook Role Recipe Recipe Cookbook Recipe Recipe Cookbook
20. CI Node Node Production Node Node Node QA Node Node web_app Recipe Recipe nginx Recipe Recipe ruby database Recipe Recipe postgresql Recipe Recipe backup
21. Your Workstation Node Node Chef Server
22. Your Workstation Node Node Chef Server
23. Your Workstation Node Node Chef Server
24. Your Workstation Node Node Chef Server
25. Your Workstation Node Node Chef Server
26. Your Workstation Node Node Chef Server
27. Node Node Chef Solo
29. Your Workstation Node Node matschaffer/knife-solo
30. LiveCoding https://gist.github.com/jgarber/6328999
31. • learnchef.com • ChefConf 2013 on YouTube • The Food Fight Show More Resources
32. @jasongarber @promptworks jason@promptworks.com