Presentation on Chef (Server Installation and Configuration Automation by OpsCode) in Waikiki, Hawaii on October 4-6, 2009.

1. Nathaniel Brown
nshb@ .com
CHEFInfrastructure Automation
Evolving with

3. co-founder at

4. co-founder at
“The Place to Buy, Sell, and Trade Videos Online”

5. co-founder at
“The Place to Buy, Sell, and Trade Videos Online”
( we have a limited beta invite going on, sign up at http://vidli.com )

6. co-founder at
“The Place to Buy, Sell, and Trade Videos Online”
( we have a limited beta invite going on, sign up at http://vidli.com )
( we’re also hiring, so check out http://jobs.vidli.com )

7. co-founder at
“The Place to Buy, Sell, and Trade Videos Online”
( we have a limited beta invite going on, sign up at http://vidli.com )
( we’re also hiring, so check out http://jobs.vidli.com )
we also have a VMS called

8. Produced Canada on Rails back in April 2006
The industry’s first Rails conference in the world

9. 13 years tech exec / management / consultant
• Start-ups / Fortune 500
• Content / Digital / Video Management Systems
• eCommerce & Metric / Analytic Systems (Omniture and such)
• Event Producer, Speaker, Workshop Instructor

10. and...
perity.com

11. But Who is Chef?

12. But Who is Chef?

13. (oh no, please don’t take my picture)
But Who is Chef?

14. Chef is Your Server Samurai

15. More like the General of Server Samurai

16. Who Takes All Your Operating Systems
(For Both Servers and Desktops)

17. And Normalizes Them Into One
• Ubuntu (8.04-9.10) • FreeBSD (7.1)
• Debian (5.0) • OpenBSD (4.4)
• RHEL & CentOS (5.x) • Mac OS X (10.4, 10.5)
• Gentoo (1.12.11.1) • OpenSolaris (2008.11)

18. Chef to the Rescue

19. Three Quick Wins With Chef

20. (soon)
New hires get a company environment setup instantly
by running your custom bootstrap

21. (soon)
New hires get a company environment setup instantly
by running your custom bootstrap

22. (soon)
New hires get a company environment setup instantly
by running your custom bootstrap

23. Be able to rapidly and reliably modify and clone the DNA of
each applications server environment for everyone
... and have history doing such

24. Make Amazon AMI’s with Chef Pre Loaded
Automatically Scale mission critical servers up or down
Companies to Help:
$0.03/hr - Small $0.24/hr - Extra Large
$21.36/mo - Small $170.88/mo - Extra Large

25. Chef is Made by
. .

26. Chef is Made by
. .
$2.5 Million VC Funded by DFJ

27. Chef is Made by
. .
$2.5 Million VC Funded by DFJ ~2 Week Release Cycle

28. Chef is Made by
. .
$2.5 Million VC Funded by DFJ ~2 Week Release Cycle
4 Founders from Full Infrastructure Automation Industry

29. Chef is Made by
. .
$2.5 Million VC Funded by DFJ ~2 Week Release Cycle
4 Founders from Full Infrastructure Automation Industry
10 Employees

30. Chef is Made by
. .
$2.5 Million VC Funded by DFJ ~2 Week Release Cycle
4 Founders from Full Infrastructure Automation Industry
10 Employees Open Source under the Apache License v2.0

31. Who Uses Chef?
(some are indirectly through EngineYard’s infrastructure)

32. Why Might a Chef Be Needed?

33. You have only one person in your company who
knows what’s going on with your servers

34. You have servers with custom configurations that only the
person who set it up has any idea what they are and he probably
forgets them now too (if asked to mimic settings of course).

35. You rely on your extensive photographic memory to build
new servers by hand ...

36. You rely on your extensive photographic memory to build
new servers by hand ...

37. You rely on your extensive photographic memory to build
new servers by hand ...
Seriously?

38. How Does The Chef Client / Server Work?

39. Server Node (Chef Client) Registers with Server Command Center

40. Server Node (Chef Client) Registers with Server Command Center
Secure Public / Private Key Authentication (new)

41. Server Node (Chef Client) Registers with Server Command Center
Secure Public / Private Key Authentication (new)
Server Node Syncs CookBooks with Server Command Center

42. Server Node (Chef Client) Registers with Server Command Center
Secure Public / Private Key Authentication (new)
Server Node Syncs CookBooks with Server Command Center
Server Node Compiles Cookbooks and Executes Them

43. Server Node (Chef Client) Registers with Server Command Center
Secure Public / Private Key Authentication (new)
Server Node Syncs CookBooks with Server Command Center
Server Node Compiles Cookbooks and Executes Them
Server Node Checks Server Command Center at Next Regular Timed Interval

44. Chef Nomenclature
Resources
Definitions
Libraries
Providers

45. Chef Nomenclature
Users & Groups
Resources Files
Services
HTTP
Definitions
Libraries
Providers

46. Chef Nomenclature
• Package
Users & Groups • Meta
• Remote Directory
Resources Files
•
•
•
Directory
Execute
Cron
•
•
Remote File
Route
Services • Ruby Block
• Link
HTTP • Script
• Mount
• Template
Definitions
Libraries
Providers

47. Chef Nomenclature
• Package
Users & Groups • Meta
• Remote Directory
Resources Files
•
•
•
Directory
Execute
Cronjobs
•
•
Remote File
Route
Services • Ruby Block
• Link
HTTP • Script
• Mount
• Template
Definitions Large Resource Wrappers
Libraries
Providers

48. Chef Nomenclature
• Package
Users & Groups • Meta
• Remote Directory
Resources Files
•
•
•
Directory
Execute
Cron
•
•
Remote File
Route
Services • Ruby Block
• Link
HTTP • Script
• Mount
• Template
Definitions Large Resource Wrappers
Libraries Dump Zone for Custom Code
Providers

49. Chef Nomenclature
• Package
Users & Groups • Meta
• Remote Directory
Resources Files
•
•
•
Directory
Execute
Cron
•
•
Remote File
Route
Services • Ruby Block
• Link
HTTP • Script
• Mount
• Template
Definitions Large Resource Wrappers
Libraries Dump Zone for Custom Code
Providers Action Controller For Resources

50. Chef Nomenclature
Resources
Attributes
Definitions
Libraries } Recipes
CookBooks
Providers

51. Chef Nomenclature
Resources
Attributes
Definitions
Libraries } Recipes
CookBooks
} Roles
Providers

52. Chef Nomenclature
Resources
Attributes
Definitions
Libraries } Recipes
CookBooks
} }
Roles Nodes
Providers

53. Chef Tools & Infrastructure
Chef Indexer
Stomp & Ferret indexing for all config and CookBook info

54. Chef Tools & Infrastructure
Chef Indexer
Stomp & Ferret indexing for all config and CookBook info

55. Chef Tools & Infrastructure
Chef Indexer
Stomp & Ferret indexing for all config and CookBook info
Chef Client (aka Server Node)
Sits on Each Server Waiting for Orders

56. Chef Tools & Infrastructure
Chef Indexer
Stomp & Ferret indexing for all config and CookBook info
Chef Client (aka Server Node)
Sits on Each Server Waiting for Orders
Chef Server (with API)
The Command Center for Server Nodes

57. Chef Tools & Infrastructure
Chef Indexer
Stomp & Ferret indexing for all config and CookBook info
Chef Client (aka Server Node)
Sits on Each Server Waiting for Orders
Chef Server (with API)
The Command Center for Server Nodes
Chef Solo
When You Want a One Off Server That Doesn’t Auto Update

58. Golden Path
(at least for Chef Server)

59. https://chef.vidli.com/cookbooks/apache2
(Private Cookbook Demo)

60. Vidli, The Official Video Licensor
... and home of the Blue Footed Booby
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