ChefConf 2013: Coming to Terms with Chef

What remains of my deck for ChefConf 2013 when committed to "paper," none of the videos are going to make sense. Watch the recording for higher fidelity!

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1. Coming to Terms with Chef
   a support group for the weary and downtrodden admin
   

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   …and I am Joan’s subconscious.
   I pass judgement and mock her.
   

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   Because she doesn’t know any! Zing!
   I kid, I kid.
   

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   Or maybe it’ll make you
   sick to your stomach.
   

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    Stage 1: denial
    

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    She only gets worse from here, folks.
    

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    Stage 2: anger
    

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    She hated what she didn’t understand.
    

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    None of these things are true!
    

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    You lost me too.
    Start over, Joan…
    

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    Hmm, maybe she’s learning…
    

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    Stage 3: bargaining
    

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    base role (n): a general purpose Chef role that
    runs on every machine.
    

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    community cookbook (n): an Open Source
    Chef cookbook, usually stored on GitHub,
    written and supported by one or more
    nice people.
    

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    Over half our cookbooks
    are community cookbooks.†
    †or descended from them…
    

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43. Chef Truth #1
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    You are not alone.
    

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    base Debian role
    base Ubuntu/EC2 role
    base Ubuntu/Azure role
    base SmartOS role
    base load balancer role
    base database role
    

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45. Chef Truth #2
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    Your addiction is
    your strength.
    

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    Every single one.
    

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    …I got a bad feeling about this…
    

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    CLOUDANT
    OPERATIONS WAR ROOM
    FREENODE IRC
    2AM, MAY 28, 2012
    <@Wohali> omg help! D: D: D:
    <@rnewson> calm down, take deep breaths
    <@rnewson> we’ll get through this.
    

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54. What went wrong?
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    Stage 4: depression
    …as well you should be, Joan!
    

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59. Chef Truth #3
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    Chef is a belief,
    not a religion.
    

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    Stage 5: acceptance
    

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64. Chef Truth #4
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    More people in
    your repo, not less.
    

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65. Good things:
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    • knife search node –a
    • chef-client –l debug
    • Foodcritic
    • knife-spork
    • knife-node-flip
    • ohai-wtf
    • ohai-sysctl
    • ohai-softlayer (to be released)
    http://github.com/cloudant/ohai_plugins
    

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66. Thank you for coming!
    1. You Are Not Alone.
    2. Your addiction is your strength.
    3. Chef is a belief, not a religion.
    4. More people in your repo, not less.
    

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