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2. 01 | Overview of Chef
Steven Murawski | Community Software Development Engineer at Chef
Damien Caro | Technical Evangelist at Microsoft

3. 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

4. Setting the Stage The Benefits of Automation

5. Setting the Stage The Dimensions of Scale

6. 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

7. Setting the Stage Infrastructure as Code
Programmatically provision and configure components

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

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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. The Chef Ecosystem Community
Supermarket –
Cookbooks – ours and yours
Mailing lists -
IRC - #chef and #chef-hacking on Freenode.net
Bi-weekly community developer meetings
GitHub
Open Source Projects
RFCs – to guide our development
Meeting notes from our Chef Community Summits

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

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

16. 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

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