September 2017: ITP: Chef Automate Overview

One of the biggest struggles anyone has when running workloads at scale is ensuring that configuration consistency is maintained across a fleet of machines running those workloads

Chef ( https://www.chef.io/ ) in synonymous with configuration management and compliance (amongst many other capabilities) and in this month's main session we are lucky to have Matt Ray from Chef speaking about Chef Automate.

Our schedule for the evening currently looks like this:

Doors open at 5:45pm with food served at 6:00pm

1. What's new in Azure - 6:00 - 6:15pm.

2. Chef Automate Overview - Matt Ray (Chef (https://www.chef.io/)) - 6.15 - 7.30.

3. Q&A and general catch up till 8:00pm.

Main Session: Chef Automate Overview - Matt Ray

Abstract:

Chef Automate, now available through the Azure Marketplace, is a collaborative platform for managing the state of your Linux, Unix and Windows infrastructure no matter where it is.

Built on top of the open source Chef and InSpec projects, it is the integration of configuration management, compliance, visualisation and continuous integration/delivery.

This session will cover the open source foundations of Chef Automate and a demo finding a compliance violation, patching it, and deploying the fix for an application stack through Automate's CI/CD workflow.

About Matt:

Matt Ray is Chef's Sydney-based Manager and Solutions Architect for APJ. He has been active in the open source community for over two decades and has worked in a wide variety of startups and enterprises. He podcasts at SoftwareDefinedTalk.com, blogs at LeastResistance.net and is @mattray on Twitter, GitHub and too many Slacks!