1. Wednesday, May 1, 13

2. • 1 Day of workshops:
• Advanced Cookbook Authoring
• Incident Response
• 2 Days of Keynotes and Sessions:
• Facebook, Adobe, Riot Games, GE, Forrester, Disney, and many more...
ChefConf 2013
Wednesday, May 1, 13

3. • Chef in the AWS Cloud
• Chef Anti-patterns
• “The Berkshelf Way”
• Vagrant
Some Highlights...
Wednesday, May 1, 13

4. • “If you’re not using Auto-scale Groups,
you’re an idiot...”
• Use IAM Roles.
• Package everything.
Chef in the AWS Cloud
Wednesday, May 1, 13

5. Chef Anti-patterns
• Giant GIT repo for Chef Repo*
• One Giant Company Cookbook*
• Using Chef Environments for more than just logical environments
• Forking Community Cookbooks*
• Run List in Roles*
• Disorganized Data Bags
• Not knowing about or using the chef-shell*
• Not using LWRPs
• “Not invented here” syndrome*
• The Lone Wolf Chef*
Wednesday, May 1, 13

6. “The Berkshelf Way”
http://berkshelf.com/
• What the f*** is a berkshelf?!
• Kick-ass cookbook dependency manager.
• Think Bundler for cookbooks.
• Is it more than just a tool?
• Yeah, there’s a “way” too.
Wednesday, May 1, 13

7. Here’s the “way”.
• Work in verticals from the outside in:
Use Cookbook Patterns:Application, Library and Wrapper
• Favor Data Driven Cookbooks:
Re-use of public cookbooks; favor using cookbook attributes over Data
Bags.
• Write well-encapsulated Cookbooks:
Work on cookbooks in isolation so they can be as portable as possible.
How do roles fit in? They don’t. Use recipes instead.
• Have very short iteration cycles:
Using the vagrant-berkshelf plugin you can provision and test the cookbooks
extremely quickly.
Wednesday, May 1, 13

8. Vagrant
http://www.vagrantup.com/
• What the f*** isVagrant?!
• A command line tool to create and configure portable development
environments.
• Why would I want to use this?
• To develop against an environment that mirrors production because it is
built with the same chef code that builds production.
• No more “but it worked on my laptop”.
• Is that all?
• No, there are also providers!
Wednesday, May 1, 13

9. Vagrant Providers
• A provider manages compute resources
• Vagrant < 1.0 only supportedVirtualBox
• Vagrant >= 1.1 supports:
• VMware
• AWS (EC2)
• LXC
• RackSpace
Wednesday, May 1, 13