Chef PDX Meetup #001

Join us for our September Chef Portland Meetup!!

We've got a real special night lined up for you! First, Irving will discuss deploying Chef at scale, then Tim will show off a ton of new fancy Chef features you might have missed. Finally, time permitting, Eric will dissect the role-cookbook pattern and explain how to get the most out of roles.

Come join us on Wednesday, September 28th, 2016 at New Relic. We'll have three great talks, pizza, beer, cider, and lots of great folks to hang with and talk shop.

Talk #1

Planning a Global Chef Architecture for Large Enterprises

• Irving Popovetsky, Principal Customer Architect @ Chef

Taking the lessons learned while working with Chef’s largest customers, we have distilled the patterns and practices for leveraging Chef in Continuous Deployment at scale. This talk will describe the key foundational concepts as well as a reference architecture for such deployments.

Talk #2

Fancy New Chef Stuff: Custom Resources and Local Delivery

• Tim Smith, Community Engineer @ Chef

With twenty-one new enhancements introduced in the last Chef release, it is often hard to keep up with what’s new in Chef. This talk will dive into two of the great new features introduced in Chef and Chef-DK in the last year: Custom Resources and Local Chef Delivery. We’ll give a brief overview of the existing LWRP functionality and compare and contrast with the new Custom Resource functionality. See how custom resources allow for easy to write reusable code in your infrastructure, and how they solve many of the cookbook design dilemmas of the past. From there we’ll dive into local testing with Local Chef Delivery. Local Chef Delivery allows you to write a complete testing pipeline using Chef that can execute on your workstation or build server. See how this can ease your cookbook development cycle and how it can transitions to Chef Automate in the future.

Talk #3 (time permitting)

Dissecting the Role-Cookbook Pattern

• Eric Maxwell, Success Engineer @ Chef

Have you heard about Roles in Chef Server? Have you heard that “best practice” says not to use them because they’re not versionable? Have you been warned not to store attributes in Roles? What if we could have it all? What if we could use Roles that were versionable and were safe to store attributes in? Well, you’re in luck — we can! Join me as we dive into the Role-Cookbook Pattern and learn that we can, indeed, have our cake and eat it too!