DevOps and Chef (Changelog Interviews #38)

Wynn sat down with Corey Donohoe from GitHub and Seth Chisamore from Opscode to talk about DevOps, Chef, agile infrastructure and innovation in the datacenter.

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Show Notes:

• Corey Donahoe aka @atmos, DevOps dude at GitHub


• Seth Chisamore aka @schisamo, evangelist at Opscode, makers of Chef


• Chef, an open source systems integration framework built to bring the benefits of configuration management to your entire infrastructure.

DevOps is defined as a set of processes, methods and systems for communication, collaboration and integration between departments for Development (Applications/Software Engineering), Technology Operations and Quality Assurance (QA)

• Puppet, an open source data center automation and configuration management framework.


• Cfengine, continuous datacenter automation and repair


• Knife, the Chef command line interface


• Chef Hosted platform is an instant hosted, highly scalabe Chef Server


• Chef solo lets you run Chef without a Chef server


• Chef was architected to be multi-tenant


• The Opscode Team members have impressive resumes.


• Chef includes impressive role-based authorities


• Cookbooks are like Rubygems for Chef


• Cinderella née Cider = apple + homebrew + chef + rvm


• Homebrew as the most forked project is GitHub’s stress test. Be sure to catch Max on Episode 0.3.5


• Wynn makes the case that the Swedish Chef be the face of the DevOps movement


• Silverline from Librato does complex systems management and monitoring


• EY or EngineYard, Corey’s former employer uses VMs in their architecture


• Simon Wardley’s OSCon keynote


• OpenStack is an effort to standardize the cloud


• DevOps version of the account that got Shatner back on TV


• DevOps Borat tweets from the datacenter


• Fog, Wesley Beary’s excellent Ruby abstraction layer for popular cloud providers


• Knife, donated by 37 Signals


• Wynn digs infinity_test to test against multiple versions of Ruby at the same time


• collectd, system statistics collection daemon


• Using Visage to graph collectd stats


• Sign up for the Opscode platform free beta


• Look up Seth as schisamo in #chef and #chef-hacking on IRC

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!