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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
networks 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 High Availability Analytics

Console and Replication Platform Data
Center

Chef
Chef Server Client
Nodes

Chef The
Cookbook and Test-Driven
Development Kit Cloud
Policy Authoring 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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