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!