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01 | Overview of Chef Steven Murawski | Community Software Development Engineer at Chef Damien Caro | Technical Evangelist at Microsoft

Module Overview Setting the Stage Chef is Infrastructure as Code The Chef Ecosystem Using Chef to Reduce Complexity Using Chef to Make the Cloud Attainable

Setting the Stage The Benefits of Automation

Setting the Stage The Dimensions of Scale

Setting the Stage Automation Platform Creates a dependable view of your entire network’s state. Can handle complex dependencies among the nodes of your network. Is fault tolerant. Is secure. Can handle multiple platforms Can manage cloud resources Provides a foundation for innovation

Setting the Stage Infrastructure as Code Programmatically provision and configure components

Setting the Stage Infrastructure as Code Treat like any other code base

Setting the Stage Infrastructure as Code Reconstruct business from code repository, data backup, and compute resources

Setting the Stage Infrastructure as Code Programmatically provision and configure components Treat like any other code base Reconstruct business from code repository, data backup, and compute resources

Chef is Infrastructure as Code Chef provides a domain-specific language (DSL) that allows you to specify policy for your infrastructure Policy describes the desired state Policies can be statically or dynamically defined Policies can be versioned (and version controlled) Policies allow you to reduce complexity through abstraction

The Chef Ecosystem Management Console High Availability and Replication Analytics Platform Chef Client Nodes Data Center Chef Server Chef Development Kit The Cloud Cookbook and Policy Authoring Test-Driven Infrastructure

The Chef Ecosystem Community Supermarket – http://supermarket.chef.io Cookbooks – ours and yours Mailing lists - http://lists.opscode.com/sympa/lists IRC - #chef and #chef-hacking on Freenode.net Bi-weekly community developer meetings GitHub https://github.com/chef Open Source Projects RFCs – to guide our development Meeting notes from our Chef Community Summits

Using Chef to Reduce Complexity Resources Recipes Cookbooks Attributes Data bags Roles Environments Organizations Search

Using Chef to Make Cloud Attainable Keep your environmental details separate from your implementation using Attributes Roles Environments Cookbooks

Using Chef to Make Cloud Attainable Use cloud plugins for Knife and Chef Provisioning Knife-Azure Knife-Cloud (Chef Provisioning is under active development now) Use cookbooks to enhance your cloud experience https://supermarket.chef.io/cookbooks/microsoft_azure

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