Conference Overview
#ChefConf 2013 will deliver three days of technical sessions, training, and keynotes presentations designed to help guide businesses on their path to infrastructure automation.
Last year’s #ChefConf sold out, attracting nearly 500 system administrators, application developers, IT operations professionals, and enterprise architects to collaborate in creating shared knowledge and best practices for executing DevOps strategies in the data center, public and private clouds. ChefConf 2013 will feature presentations from IT leaders representing some of the most leading-edge consumer and technology companies in the world. Already confirmed speakers include:
- Rob Cummings, Program Manager, Infrastructure Engineering, Nordstrom
- Phil Dibowitz, Production Engineer, Facebook
- John Esser, Director of Engineering Productivity and Agile Development, Ancestry.com
- Mitchell Hashimoto, Founder, HashiCorp
- Jeremy LaTrasse, CEO, Message Bus
- John Martin, Senior Director, Production Engineering, Edmunds.com
- John Martinez, Cloud Operations Engineer, Adobe
- Alex Munk, Senior Product Manager, Splunk
- Carl Perry, Cloud Architect, DreamHost
- Theo Schlossnagle, CEO, Circonus
- Aaron Suggs, Operations Engineer, Kickstarter
- Jamie Winsor, Software Engineer, Riot Games
Check back soon for the full agenda!
Workshops Overview
Chef Introductory Workshop – Managing Linux
This Introductory Workshop is a hands on training class designed to get users familiar with Chef for performing common automation tasks. In this workshop, we will cover:
- Set up a local workstation with Chef and connect to a Chef Server
- Use Chef to automate installation of a Nagios server as a real world example
- Automate other common system tasks with Chef
Chef Introductory Workshop – Managing Windows
This Introductory Workshop is a hands on training class designed to get users familiar with Chef for performing common automation tasks. In this workshop, we will cover:
- Set up a local workstation with Chef and connect to a Chef Server
- Use Chef to automate installation of a IIS server as a real world example
- Automate other common system tasks with Chef
Chef Cookbook Authoring with Bento, Vagrant, and Berkshelf (Advanced)
Learn to build cookbooks from scratch quickly and easily, using Berkshelf, Vagrant, and Opscode Bento! This session will guide participants through setting up an optimized cookbook development workstation, introduce the Application Cookbook design pattern, and teach participants how to build easy automated integration testing using Chef Minitest.
On completion, attendees should be able to create high-quality cookbooks with built-in tests from scratch in no time.
This advanced class has some advanced pre-requisites that are mandatory:
- All participants must bring an Apple laptop with the following minimum specifications:
- Multi-core CPU
- At least 4 GB of RAM
- SSD Hard disk (not negotiable) with 50GB free space
- OSX 10.7 or later
The most recent version of Xcode and the Xcode command line tool MUST be installed prior to the workshop.
Introduction to Chef for OpenStack
Want to learn more about Chef and OpenStack or to get involved with the Chef for OpenStack project but not sure where to start? This session will introduce you to the OpenStack project and how to deploy it with Chef. We’ll cover the existing Chef for OpenStack resources and the related cookbooks and content in the Chef community.
The proposed agenda is:
- Introduction to OpenStack
- Chef for OpenStack Overview
- Knife-OpenStack
- Chef and the OpenStack Ecosystem
- Chef for OpenStack repository walkthrough Code discussion of Cookbooks for:
- Cinder
- Glance
- Horizon
- Keystone
- Nova
- Quantum
- Swift
The session will be lead by Opscode Senior Technical Evangelist Matt Ray and is intended for folks already familiar with Chef and interested in deploying OpenStack.
“ChefConf is awesome. You meet people that are working
on the same problems and hammer out mutual solutions.”
- Bryan Berry, United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization
