Bucky Wolfe will discuss Chef's omnibus installer
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About this talk:
This will be over a different project that Chef maintains, called Omnibus. It's a bit of a different beast from chef itself, though chef is still leveraged in some areas (chef-solo can be run as part of a post-install 'reconfigure' step).
But mostly, omnibus is a tool for programmatically defining the process of building complex applications (and their stacks), so that they can be built on any platform/architecture, and distributed in a single package. If you're doing any systems engineering work for a product or appliance team, omnibus can help simplify the distribution of a complex application stack, without requiring the user installing it to have any special knowledge.
links:
https://github.com/chef/omnibus
https://docs.chef.io/install_omnibus.html
From the project page:
The omnibus installer is used to install the chef-client on a server, a workstation, and a node.
For those unfamiliar with chef:
"Chef turns infrastructure into code. With Chef, you can automate how you build, deploy, and manage your infrastructure. Your infrastructure becomes as versionable, testable, and repeatable as application code. " -- https://www.chef.io/chef/
link: https://www.chef.io/