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Debugging Chef: “Why did my cookbooks stop working?” and other experiences transitioning to The Cloud

Chef enables you to transition your installs seamlessly from one environment to another, but when we transitioned from a private data center to the AWS Cloud, our old trusty cookbooks failed. What happened? This talk covers making cookbooks more portable and robust to deal with a multitude of environments both physical and virtual. From best practices for migrating to a new environment and writing better recipes, to some tips and technical tricks for debugging and extending Chef, you too can soon be in the Cloud!

Speakers

Jonathan Malachowski

Consultant, Coveros

Jon writes Chef for the Department of Homeland Security (USCIS). Our DevOps team uses Chef exclusively for deploying an application (website), supporting infrastructure ( tomcat, jms provider, nosql database, ...), configuring the application, and updating the OS. Jon has been responsible... Read More →

Wednesday April 1, 2015 1:30pm - 2:10pm PDT
Room 209/210

Breakout Session

1:30pm PDT

Disney DevOps: Automating the Enterprise with Supermarket, Containers and BI

Disney is the world’s largest media company and home of some of the most respected and beloved brands around the globe. Utilizing the latest technology is an important strategic focus at Disney, allowing guests to better connect with Disney and allowing Disney to better connect with its guests in innovative and impactful ways. As with many other IT organizations supporting increasingly agile and high velocity businesses, Disney’s own technical operations teams continue to adapt and transform to keep up with the speed, scale and consistent repeatability required to move successfully into the future. This presentation will update the audience on Disney’s journey in adopting business empowering DevOps practices, deploying automation with tools like Chef and Supermarket, managing public cloud hosted application stacks through a custom tool complimentary to Chef called DRADIS, and transforming business intelligence through Docker containers.

Speakers

Jason Cox

Director, Global SRE, The Walt Disney Company

Jason Cox is the Director of SRE at The Walt Disney Company. Jason Cox is a champion of DevOps practices, promoting new technologies and better ways of working. He enjoys helping organizations deliver more value, better, faster, safer and happier. He is an inspirational speaker who... Read More →

Jeff LaPlante

Staff Systems Engineer, The Walt Disney Company

Jeff LaPlante is a DevOps professional with over 10 years of experience doing systems engineering. He is currently doing the DevOps in Los Angeles at The Walt Disney Company as a Staff Systems Engineer. If you’ve gone to any Disney website, chances are you’ve encountered something... Read More →

Brian Scott

Sr Staff Technical Evangelist, Global SRE, The Walt Disney Company

Brian Scott is Disney’s first Technology Evangelist & Engineering Advocate, helping teams with new technology, building best practices in the Cloud & Automation. He majored in computer science, helped build, and has managed many SRE Teams within The Walt Disney Company. He is an... Read More →

Steven Wagner

Staff Systems Engineer, The Walt Disney Company

Steven Wagner has applied his fascination with getting technology to do the boring and/or impossible in the telecommunications, ISP/ASP, gaming and visual effects industries (at companies like Earthlink, XO Communications and Industrial Light + Magic) with positive results across... Read More →

Nick Willever

Sr. Systems Engineer, The Walt Disney Company

Nick’s been automating with Chef since 2009 and is now using it at The Walt Disney Company for building complex infrastructure environments for their marketing and studio related web services. His diverse software and system engineer skills not only allow him to automate servers... Read More →

Wednesday April 1, 2015 1:30pm - 2:10pm PDT
Grand C/D

Breakout Session

1:30pm PDT

Going Mainstream with DevOps

As DevOps continue to evolve with the emergence and expansion of new technology trends including cloud infrastructure, Big Data and the Internet of Things, thoughts of DevOps adoption has become increasingly mainstream in many IT enterprises. IDC alone estimates that 60 percent of CIOs plan to use DevOps to manage their software.

“Going Mainstream with DevOps” will analyze how DevOps automation has evolved since its conception and how it continues to play a major role in many IT organizations. Rachel will then dive deeper into how enterprises are adopting DevOps practices, from agile development and continuous deployment to containerization; and, the challenges organizations face when implementing DevOps and how to overcome them.

Speakers

Rachel Chalmers

Principal, Ignition Partners

Rachel joined Ignition as a principal in 2013, where she sources deals in enterprise and cloud infrastructure, Big Data and the Internet of Things. At Ignition, Rachel also advises portfolio companies and provides counsel on industry trends.Prior to Ignition, Rachel worked for 13... Read More →

Wednesday April 1, 2015 1:30pm - 2:10pm PDT
Mission City B1-B3

Breakout Session

1:30pm PDT

Kitchen Flows: Test Kitchen Usage Patterns

There are many different ways to use Test Kitchen in your business and daily life. In this session we will cover:

* Exploratory testing
* Multi-platform cookbook support
* Legacy retrofit testing
* Test driven development

Speakers

Fletcher Nichol

CHEF

Fletcher Nichol is a software developer from Edmonton, Canada who has worked in jobs ranging from systems administrator to web application developer. He spends far too much time writing open source software and far too little time playing the drums. He is active in many automation... Read More →

Wednesday April 1, 2015 1:30pm - 2:10pm PDT
Mission City B4-B5

Breakout Session

1:30pm PDT

Managing Databases with Chef

The easy part of implementing chef is getting applications and OS configuration within the system. But how do you deal with databases? We'll talk through the patterns that are out there and give some examples of how NCR Hospitality is approaching the problem.

Speakers

Michael Hedgpeth

Software Architect, NCR

Michael Hedgpeth is a software architect at NCR where he works to improve software delivery for over forty teams within the Hospitality division. Over the past ten years he has worked with teams to implement continous integration, test-driven development, and integration testing.Recently... Read More →

Wednesday April 1, 2015 1:30pm - 2:10pm PDT
Grand A/B

Breakout Session

1:30pm PDT

Microsoft Presents: Chef in action on Azure

Since its launch last year, more and more customers are using Chef on Azure. Join us to learn how Chef can automate your workloads in Azure - IaaS or PaaS, Windows or Linux, Cloud or Hybrid. This session will show you how to get started with Chef on Azure in minutes and leverage its the full power taking MSN as a case study.

Speakers

Eugene Chigirinskiy

Principal Group Engineering Manager, Microsoft

Kundana Palagiri

Principal Program Manager, Azure, Microsoft

Kundana Palagiri been at Microsoft for about 14+ years and worked on various Windows Server and Cloud Technologies as both a Program Manager and a Software Engineer. She currently work on Azure IaaS and PaaS platforms and I primarily work on a VM Customization framework to integrate... Read More →

Wednesday April 1, 2015 1:30pm - 2:10pm PDT
Grand G/H

Breakout Session

1:30pm PDT

Providers, Resources and Helpers Oh My!

Since the dawn of definitions, they have been a great way to wrap repetitive recipe code. But, If you have ever needed to bridge the gap between the limitations of definitions and the capabilities of LWRP/HWRP Resources/Providers/Libraries but just didn't know where to start, then come learn about how to do it. This is for new and old Chefs who are experienced or non-experienced with using Resource/Providers. You will be given base LWRP/HWRP cookbooks to get you started on intermediate and advanced topics in Chef, and you will be shown what is possible with Chef by examining the advanced topics on HWRP.
Topics:

LWRP Basics (Review)
Libraries (Review)
HWRP Structure (When to Use)
HWRP Node Attribute Access
HWRP Resource Access
HWRP Simple Metaprogramming
HWRP Advanced TopicsExample Use Cases

Speakers

Brian Stajkowski

Senior Level III Support Engineer, Bulletproof Networks

Brian has been in operations for more than 13 years with experience spanning from Network Architecture to DevOps Engineering. Brian supplies LWRP based cookbooks to the Chef Community and has automated several products using Chef. He currently works for Bulletproof networks providing... Read More →

Wednesday April 1, 2015 1:30pm - 2:10pm PDT
Grand E/F

Breakout Session

1:30pm PDT

Community Room

The community room is designated as an "unconference" room for open spaces and spontaneous discussion. The agenda is to be determine by the members in attendance.

Wednesday April 1, 2015 1:30pm - 4:50pm PDT
Rm 203/204

Breakout Session

2:25pm PDT

Chef Patterns At Bloomberg Scale

Chef is an easy choice for managing a large infrastructure -- at Bloomberg we find it compelling to automate all our things. However, as your infrastructure grows into an interconnected automated organism, software patterns emerge. For Bloomberg's Hadoop clusters, our current set of open-source patterns emerged after only 10's of hosts, running 10's of recipes each. These patterns have been instrumental in building our even larger systems.

This talk will walk through our large scale cluster management patterns:

* Synchronous multi-machine service rolling-restart integrating Chef and Zookeeper for service restart

* Multi-process monitoring service restart (more than subscribes) process table inspection for accidental or human intervention

* Deploy_* providers for Hadoop -- the Hadoop Distributed File System presents unique challenges to Chef for deploying applications and artifacts. We provide primitives such as HDFS file, directory and template amongst Kafka topic creation, HBase table creation and even Kerberos support

* Wrapper cookbook patterns:
- Proxy pattern for pluggable actions (e.g. service restart wrapping) without picking through the run_context
- Pitfalls for pluggable templates

* Virtualized per-cluster Chef servers, built via Jenkins to be generic using Vagrant with the ability to (re)provision using chef-solo and Chef REST API and provide PXE to production operations

Speakers

Amit Anand

Bloomberg

Amit Anand has over 17 years of experience in the Information Technology field, as well as extensive experience in big data, including expertise in designing, deploying and managing large Hadoop clusters and eco-system tools. Amit is a certified Hadoop administrator and is currently... Read More →

Clay Baenziger

Bloomberg

Clay Baenziger - leads the Hadoop Infrastructure team at Bloomberg. Clay comes from a diverse background in systems infrastructure and analytics. At Sun Microsystems, his team built out an automated bare-metal Solaris deployment tool for Solaris engineering labs and his contributions... Read More →

Biju Nair

Software Engineer, Bloomberg LP

Biju Nair is interested in system software design, development, deployment, and tuning. Currently at Bloomberg, he is focused on helping product teams adopt and efficiently use distributed systems like Hadoop, HBase, Cassandra, Kafka etc to meet their strict SLAs. In the data storage... Read More →

Wednesday April 1, 2015 2:25pm - 3:05pm PDT
Mission City B1-B3

Breakout Session

2:25pm PDT

Chef Provisioning a Chef Server Cluster

Or, "Yo dawg, I heard you like Chef!"

This talk is an exploration of how to build Chef Server 12 clusters with Chef Provisioning, including premium features like Chef Reporting and Chef Analytics. I will cover several new capabilities and tools in the Chef ecosystem that makes it easier than ever before to build and manage scalable Chef Server clusters.

In this talk, attendees will learn:

The basics of Chef Provisioning
How Chef Provisioning works with EC2
The chef-server-cluster and chef-server-ingredient cookbooks
How to use data to drive configuration of Chef Server clusters
How the various premium features of Chef Server integrate across multiple nodes

Speakers

Joshua Timberman

Code Cleric, CHEF

Joshua Timberman is a Code Cleric at CHEF, where he Cures Technical Debt Wounds for 1d8+5 lines of code, casts Protection from Yaks, and otherwise helps continuously improve internal technical process.

Wednesday April 1, 2015 2:25pm - 3:05pm PDT
Mission City B4-B5

Breakout Session

2:25pm PDT

Cooking Up Drama

“What do you mean, we don’t have configuration management?” Joining DramaFever’s ops team last year, we both came from orgs that used Chef, but initially we disagreed about which flavor of CM to use here. We cooperated to build awesome instead of vying for the upper hand. (Go go gadget devops.) We’ll discuss the initial concerns around going with Chef and how we addressed them.

DramaFever uses Docker extensively, but we found Dockerfiles aren’t enough to keep All The Things consistent. We need to predictably create and maintain the host instances and then launch containers in the right environment for our main Django app or any of our golang microservices. Using Chef along with other tools such as Packer, we’re beginning to bring order to dev, qa, monitoring, CI, and our AMI creation process as well as our entire application infrastructure.

We’ll detail how we’re reducing deployment overhead and increasing maintainability for our AWS-based video platform, which streams international content, documentaries, and horror to a rapidly growing worldwide audience. We will also share some of the pitfalls and corner cases we are working through in order to create our desired infrastructure.

Speakers

Bridget Kromhout

Principal Program Manager, Microsoft

Technologist, podcaster, conference speaker, devopsdays organizer. Herds cats and wrangles docs; still team #opslife.

Peter Shannon

Operations Engineer, DramaFever

Peter Shannon is a husband and father who moonlights as an operations engineer. Originally a chemist, Peter found his passion for software engineering in high performance computing and computational chemistry – which never really became his cup of tea. Now he spends most of his... Read More →

Wednesday April 1, 2015 2:25pm - 3:05pm PDT
Grand C/D

Breakout Session

2:25pm PDT

Infra-as-code and Enterprise ITSM Governance

In a large enterprise, there are many front-end and back-end systems/processes that need to "talk". This presentation will demonstrate a framework of open-source tools that leverage infrastructure-as-code to not only create the foundation for the integration between systems but also show how infrastructure-as-code is used to create the low-level primitives used to emerge infra and platforms for immediate developer use.

DevOps is a cornerstone to concepts used to drive the implementation, with continuous integration and delivery as methods to deliver the actual solution.

We'll discuss scenarios where the framework has been used to deliver rapid services, as well as collaborative interactions leading to updates of the framework itself, and following the same CI/CD principles & approach to maintain the framework on an on-going basis.

Speakers

Jason Walker

Lead Engineering Consultant, Target

My primary objectives at Target are to learn and share as much about the DevOps culture across as many Target communities as possible, including internal and external engagements. From those learnings, explore ways to engage and coach on how the practices of test-driven & life-cycle... Read More →

Wednesday April 1, 2015 2:25pm - 3:05pm PDT
Grand A/B

Breakout Session

2:25pm PDT

Inside the Chef Push Jobs Service

We haven't talked much about push jobs since we announced it but a lot has been going on behind the scenes. We've open sourced it along with the rest of the Chef Server codebase, and we have a bunch of new features coming in version 2.0. I'll give a brief summary of what Push Jobs has to offer, talk about the new features for 2.0, and then show our scaling efforts and future roadmap for push, along with some examples of how we're using it internally.

Speakers

Mark Anderson

Engineer, CHEF

I've been an engineer at Chef for almost 5 years now, and have had a hand in much of the Chef Server along with being one of the architects of Chef Push Jobs. I'm really excited that we've been able to open source so much of the core system, and I've moved over open source community... Read More →

Wednesday April 1, 2015 2:25pm - 3:05pm PDT
Room 209/210

Breakout Session

2:25pm PDT

The Chef Prince of Azure: How 10th Magnitude used Chef to flip-turn ZS Associates into Microsoft Azure Royalty

Now, this is a story all about how
ZS got flipped-turned upside down
And I'd like to take a minute
Just sit right back,
I'll tell you how we used Chef on the Microsoft stack.

Come hear the rap on how ZS Associates, a Global Sales and Marketing Data Firm, massively accelerated their change velocity and eradicated manual config errors by implementing Chef on Azure. Hear about ZS’s cool end-to-end provisioning process that uses Powershell and Chef to automate deploy, config and test with one button.

Join 10th Magnitude Senior Consultant John Smyth, 10th Magnitude Consultant and Arrested DevOps Podcast co-host Trevor Hess and ZS Associates Software Engineering Lead-Applications Mahesh Velaga, who will take you through the implementation verse by verse. Trevor, by the way, will literally be rapping--with props to Will Smith.

Speakers

Trevor Hess

Consultant, 10th Magnitude

Trevor is a regular speaker on the topic of DevOps. He develops applications for 10th Magnitude and is a co-host of the podcast Arrested DevOps. When he’s not sharing his love for concepts like CI and automation, you can find him singing karaoke.

John Smyth

Senior Consultant, 10th Magnitude

John has been in infrastructure for over 20 years at companies like Catamaran, Kirkland & Ellis, Bank One and Software Spectrum. He has appeared on Arrested DevOps as a guest speaker and wears a Chef hat every day.

Mahesh Velaga

Software Engineering Lead-Applications, ZS Associates

Mahesh Raja Velaga is a Software Engineering Lead at ZS Associates. For majority of his tenure at ZS, he worked as a core developer (ASP.NET), on various projects including applications that are part of ZS’ proprietary Javelin suite, client custom applications and infrastructure projects. He transitioned from application development to SaaS Operations and in-turn transitioned on to Dev Operations, where he currently w... Read More →

Wednesday April 1, 2015 2:25pm - 3:05pm PDT
Grand G/H

Breakout Session

2:25pm PDT

VMware Presents: Application provisioning and lifecycle management using VMware and Chef

Are you looking to deploy your infrastructure and 3-tierapplications with a click of button? Look no further - Join us to learn how to easily model and automate delivery of modern applications to your private or public clouds. Our journey isn't going to end at just deployment, we will also show you how to manage drift, rollout updates, and ensure consistency in your applications. In this session, one of our joint customers - Active Network will join us on stage for some interview style Q&A. Last, but not the least, the demo of Chef and VMware integration via vRO (aka vCO) is not to be missed!

Speakers

Nic Cheneweth

DevOps Principal, ThoughtWorks, Inc.

Recently joined ThoughtWorks as a DevOps Principal Consultant after 5 years as Director of IT and SCM with Active Networks, part of enterprise Architecture-Operations-Development team - designing, implementing, managing the automated provision and configuration of application platforms... Read More →

Pradnesh Patil

VMware

Pradnesh is a Product Manager at VMware and he is part of vRealize Automation (aka vCAC) team. He is responsible for product direction for configuration management, networking and security automation across cloud, virtual and physical infrastructures and workloads. Pradnesh has spent... Read More →

Matt Ray

Director of Partner Integration, Chef

Gregory Ruiz-Ade

Sr. Systems Engineer, Active Network, LLC

Gregory Ruiz-Ade has worked as a Systems Administrator, wearing various hats of differing size, shape and color, for the last 16 years. At ACTIVE Networks, LLC for the last three years, he’s transitioned from traditional systems administration and focussed more specifically on automation... Read More →

Wednesday April 1, 2015 2:25pm - 3:05pm PDT
Grand E/F

Breakout Session

3:20pm PDT

Building a Private Supermarket for your Organization

Since the introduction of the Berkshelf API and subsequent integration with the Chef Community Supermarket, organizations have increasingly wished for a private supermarket to showcase their in-house creations.

In this talk, you will learn how to configure and deploy your own private supermarket with test-kitchen and Vagrant. You will also learn a bit about how a private supermarket can work with your CI/CD environment, and how it integrates into your organization’s infrastructure.

Speakers

Justin Dossey

Practice Owner, New Context

Justin got his start as a sysadmin with Bulletin Board Systems in the early 1990s and quickly learned Linux and programming. He has written ruby professionally since founding Podomatic in 2005 and was an early adopter of ruby-based configuration management. In his limited free time... Read More →

Wednesday April 1, 2015 3:20pm - 4:00pm PDT
Grand E/F

Breakout Session

3:20pm PDT

Delivery with Chef

In this talk we'll discuss our experience building a continuous delivery solution at Chef, describe the philosophy behind the workflow we encoded, and share a demo of the results of our efforts.

Speakers

Seth Falcon

VP of Engineering, Chef

A product focused engineering leader who builds teams that consistently deliver valuable, high quality software at velocity. I believe the essential elements for a high performing team are trust, commitment to learning and experimentation, mechanisms for measuring outcomes, and... Read More →

Wednesday April 1, 2015 3:20pm - 4:00pm PDT
Mission City B4-B5

Breakout Session

3:20pm PDT

Entering the chef ecosystem from a Windows background

I'm an automation junkie who has lived in the windows world for the majority of my career. For the past year, I've been writing Chef based build and orchestration code and hacking on some open source automation projects. Things are different. Alot of it good and some is just hard. This session will focus on how to best approach a new world of technology and provide opportunities to share like experiences transitioning to different tool sets.

Speakers

Matt Wrock

Principal Software Engineer, CenturyLink

I have over fifteen years of experience developing distributed, high traffic web applications and more recently focused on environment and deployment automation. Until just recently I worked for Microsoft as a Sr. Software Engineer and now work for CenturyLink Cloud focusing on data... Read More →

Wednesday April 1, 2015 3:20pm - 4:00pm PDT
Room 209/210

Breakout Session

3:20pm PDT

HP Presents: Journey to Continuous Delivery inside HP Using GitHub Enterprise, Chef, and ChatOps

This is the story of how one group inside HP built a culture of continuous delivery using GitHub Enterprise, Chef, and ChatOps. We will talk through how we wired up our continuous delivery pipeline, the challenges we faced, and how HP is using the lessons we learned to help our customers with their own transformations.

Speakers

Andy Claiborne

Infrastructure Automation COE, HP

After coding up enterprise software for HP for 13 years, Andy founded his own startup and tasted the sweet goodness that comes from building out an automated continuous delivery pipeline. He found his way back to HP, determined to build the startup culture he loves within the... Read More →

Jared Smartt

DevOps Software Engineer, HP

Jared is a passionate infrastructure automation engineer at HP, where he helps HP and its customers deliver quality software by transforming culture and embracing a fully-automated continuous-delivery pipeline. He has used Chef in conjunction with virtualization technologies... Read More →

Wednesday April 1, 2015 3:20pm - 4:00pm PDT
Grand G/H

Breakout Session

3:20pm PDT

POSHChef Overview

A brief introduction into POSHChef, a new PowerShell based client for Chef. It has been designed to work with Chef but leverage technologies within Windows. The session will cover using POSHChef, compatibility with existing community cookbooks and how DSC is utilized. There are are also a couple of demonstrations.

Speakers

Ian Margetts

Russell Seymour

Senior Platform Architect & Director, Turtlesystems Consulting Ltd

I have been working in the IT industry for over 15 years. I started out in support and then moved into consultancy about 9 years ago. This is where I started to work as a Platform Architect which was really a precursor to the DevOps monica. During this time I worked with different... Read More →

Wednesday April 1, 2015 3:20pm - 4:00pm PDT
Grand A/B

Breakout Session

3:20pm PDT

Scholastic’s Tech Transformation: Taking Servers from Pets to Cattle, Now with More Containers

In this session we’ll look at how Scholastic is integrating Chef with AWS CloudFormation and AutoScaling Groups to create complete application stacks in minutes. We’ll also discuss how we have integrated Docker into our cookbook development workflow, and our progress so far toward the goal of containerized applications in production.

Speakers

John Byrne

John leads the Lifecycle Automation team at Scholastic, Inc. in New York City. He specializes in infrastructure, systems, and application deployment automation. During his last three years at Scholastic, he has progressed the infrastructure architecture from bare metal with little... Read More →

Wednesday April 1, 2015 3:20pm - 4:00pm PDT
Mission City B1-B3

Breakout Session

3:20pm PDT

Securing the Heart of Automated Infrastructure

Chef Server is a key part in keeping our automated infrastructure running. So when caring for the heart of automation operations, importance should be ensuring it's not exposed to dangerous elements. How do we do that and how does that work, especially on prepping new installs or migrations? My aim is to answer those questions, exploring Chef Server (specifically Chef 12) with a mind’s eye into security and it’s principles, sharing some stories about setting it up and the hurdles faced.

Speakers

Jamesha Fisher

DevOps Engineer, CloudPassage

Jamesha Fisher has worked in the Tech industry for over 10 years, with a special interest to security. Graduating with a degree in Information Assurance and Security Engineering, she’s lent this experience to her career in Operations and Systems Engineering, including at companies... Read More →

Wednesday April 1, 2015 3:20pm - 4:00pm PDT
Grand C/D

Breakout Session

4:15pm PDT

Building And Releasing An Online Game From Nothing With NoOps

Over the last two years we have built not just the game and the supporting software for what it takes to make an online game, but the team and the culture to support it. Using the tools for the right job: programming languages, frameworks, external services, open source tooling, development patterns and processes, we've been able to do so without over-hiring and instead fully embracing a DevOps culture.

In this talk you'll experience this story from to back. Come hear how Undead Labs grew from a small 20 person game development shop creating a single player XBox 360 Live Arcade Game, State of Decay, to a multi-game studio bringing State of Decay and more to the online space. You'll hear how we leveraged Elixir, Unity, Chef, C# on Mono, and other tools to create the foundations of Undead's online platform while simultaneously developing multiple games and the personnel required for the studio's future.

Speakers

Jamie Winsor

Platform Engineer, Undead Labs

Jamie Winsor is a software engineer who has been working with Chef and involved in the community since 2009. He is the Berkshelf Core Team Lead and uses Chef in his everyday life to empower his team to bring great games to players with little operational error.

Wednesday April 1, 2015 4:15pm - 4:50pm PDT
Grand G/H

Breakout Session

1:15pm PDT

Automate what you can, document what you can't and have the wisdom to know the difference

The patient was critically ill, if the surgeons couldn’t stabilize her she’d be gone. In the pediatric ICU, communication and documentation can mean the difference between life and death. In addition to learning about how automation and documentation are being used in the medical field, we’ll examine the cultural strategies and communication skills in critical care medicine and how to apply them to IT teams and devops initiatives regardless of industry.

Speakers

Jessica DeVita

Technical Evangelist, Microsoft

Jessica DeVita is pursing a master's degree in Human Factors and System Safety at Lund University, and investigates large scale software outages through Resilience Engineering methods. In her copious spare time, she helps teams unlock their awesomeness through coaching, facilitation... Read More →

Thursday April 2, 2015 1:15pm - 1:55pm PDT
Mission City B1-B3

Breakout Session

1:15pm PDT

Cooking Up Security With Chef

One of the ways Yahoo, which currently has one of the largest Chef deployments at over 200,000 nodes, is using Chef is to help streamline the deployment of security patches and fixes.

In this session, Yahoo will describe the architecture, infrastructure, tooling, and processes it has developed for deploying security patches and fixes across over 200,000 nodes and hundreds of Chef organizations.

Speakers

Jordan Dea-Mattson

Yahoo, Chef De Cuisine, Infrastructure

Jordan Dea-Mattson is the Chef De Cuisine, Infrastructure at Yahoo, Inc.Along with the rest of the Yahoo SecretSauce Team, he has helped lead the current largest Chef Deployment in the world.

Noah Katzman

Yahoo

Noah Katzman is core member of the SecretSauce Team at Yahoo. Along with the rest of the Yahoo SecretSauce Team, he has helped lead the current largest Chef Deployment in the world.

Tripati Kumar Subudhi

Yahoo

Shruthi Venkateswaran

Yahoo

Thursday April 2, 2015 1:15pm - 1:55pm PDT
Grand C/D

Breakout Session

1:15pm PDT

Networking SSDD: Same Stuff, Different Department

Your network's Chef configuration footprint is undoubtedly smaller than the other elements of your environment, and that needs to change! In this session, we cover a network-focused, modern, and familiar ChefDK workflow, as well as the supplemental tools we all know and love (Bento, Vagrant, Test Kitchen, Atlas, and more). It wouldn't be a great ChefConf session without some hacking, so we'll also cover projects that travel to the land of supporting "unsupported" network devices.

Speakers

John Deatherage

Automation Architect, Juniper Networks, Inc.

John once ran the largest content provider in Downtown LA in the early 2000s; one of his carriers told him that anyway. He's fascinated that the Chef community treats the network like another commodity service, but he really feels like NetDevOps is stuck in the stone age. At Juniper... Read More →

Thursday April 2, 2015 1:15pm - 1:55pm PDT
Room 209/210

Breakout Session

1:15pm PDT

PowerShell from the Ground Up

Jeffrey Snover invented PowerShell and drove managability on the Windows platform to new heights. Join him in learning the basics of PowerShell and how to survive on the Windows server command line. You'll learn how PowerShell underlies nearly all of the awesome you can do with Windows Server and how it enables Chef to be a great configuration management platform for Windows workloads. In this deep dive into learning PowerShell, Jeffrey will demonstrate how PowerShell can be one of the greatest learning tools for learning PowerShell, with loads of documentation and a great set of commands for inspecting and manipulating command output.

Speakers

Jeffrey Snover

Distinguished Engineer and the Lead Architect for the Windows Server Division, Microsoft

Jeffrey Snover is the inventor of Windows PowerShell, an object-based distributed automation engine, scripting language, and command line shell.Snover joined Microsoft in 1999 as divisional architect for the Management and Services Division, providing technical direction across Microsoft's... Read More →

Thursday April 2, 2015 1:15pm - 1:55pm PDT
Grand A/B

Breakout Session

1:15pm PDT

Serve meals, not ingredients

Business systems are meals. Nodes are a key ingredient. Do you configure and deploy business systems into multiple environments, with all the implied complexity of managing necessary variations and eliminating unwanted inconsistencies? Do you currently create Visio diagrams to describe your business systems, but long for something more actionable? Or do you use an existing definition format that you wish you could move into Chef?

In this talk we will share techniques for template-driven deployment of topologies composed of Chef nodes, and describe the latest incarnation of these techniques, which is supported by the knife topo plugin and exchange format, as well as our Automate.Insights SaaS based offering. We will also describe our latest work to integrate with chef-provisioning, and how these techniques could be used to map from existing formats such as AWS CloudFormation.

With such techniques you will be able to accelerate unleashing the awesome power of Chef across your enterprise.

Speakers

Christine Draper

VP & Co-founder, ThirdWave Insights

Christine's varied career has one underlying theme: problem solving in complex real-world systems. For much of the last decade, her passion has been making it practical to compose and deploy solutions from combinations of software products. In the past, she has had a variety of roles... Read More →

John Sweitzer

CTO, ThirdWave Insights LLC

John is an innovator and systematic thinker, who believes that the real business transformational impact of software is still to be realized. He has a long track record in bringing leading-edge thinking to enterprise systems management. Before founding ThirdWave Insights, John was... Read More →

Thursday April 2, 2015 1:15pm - 1:55pm PDT
Grand E/F

Breakout Session

1:15pm PDT

Workflow Design - Extracting Signal from the Noise

Picture the scene. You're trying to come up with a Chef workflow or toolchain for your team or organization. So you start looking at what other people in the field have been doing - but wait!

Some folks insist you should use one tool, while others are vehemently against it. Some advocate using a particular feature of Chef while others claim the world will end if you do. What's do be done? How do you decide what *you* should use?

In this session I'll help you with strategies and techniques to filter out the signal from the noise and identify tools, workflows and best practices that will fit with your organisational needs.

We'll explore some common workflows and toolchains in use today and look at the importance of understanding the motivations behind their design as an aide for validating their potential usefulness for your organization.

We'll also examine the importance of grokking the underpinning architecture and characteristics of Chef's design and implementation, and how to incorporate this information into your workflow and toolchain design process.

Speakers

Jon Cowie

Staff Operations Engineer, Etsy

Jon Cowie is a staff operations engineer at Etsy where he mixes his love of both coding and operations to try and solve interesting problems. He has created and open sourced a number of projects, including knife-spork and knife-preflight, and is the author of "Customizing Chef" from... Read More →

Thursday April 2, 2015 1:15pm - 1:55pm PDT
Mission City B4-B5

Breakout Session

1:15pm PDT

Your goat antifragiled my snowflake!: Demystifying DevOps Jargon

Are you a cow, a pet, a canary, or a unicorn? Do you prefer blue/green, or red/green/refactor? Who the heck is Brent?

Welcome to DevOps, where we are all about breaking down walls. But, we've created a private dialect, full of familiar words with unfamiliar meanings, and in-jokes upon in-jokes. Many newcomers wish there was a glossary for the movement. Time to be inclusive!

In this fun session, we'll go over some of the more unintuitive terms (being a goat is a good thing!) and the backstories behind them. We'll have an extended audience participation segment in which you can ask about words you've heard.

Speakers

Clinton Wolfe

DevOps Practice Lead, OmniTI

Clinton Wolfe leads the DevOps Practice at OmniTI, which means he voluntarily chooses to go into heavily siloed, dysfunctional organizations and try to get them to talk to each other with as few stabbings as possible. He's especially interested in testable infrastructure, and the... Read More →

Thursday April 2, 2015 1:15pm - 1:55pm PDT
Grand G/H

Breakout Session

1:15pm PDT

Community Room

The community room is designated as an "unconference" room for open spaces and spontaneous discussion. The agenda is to be determine by the members in attendance.

Thursday April 2, 2015 1:15pm - 3:45pm PDT
Rm 203/204

Breakout Session

2:10pm PDT

AWS Presents: Infrastructure as Code on AWS – Example of Using CloudFormation to Deploy Chef Server 12 and Automatically Bootstrap Clients in AWS

Find out how to create automated infrastructure deployments using versioned Infrastructure as Code - CloudFormation templates on AWS. This talk will walk through two example CloudFormation templates. The first template will show how to use CloudFormation via AWS cli commands to create a Chef Server 12 instance and have it upload it’s client validation pem into private S3 bucket also created by the template. The second template will show how to use CloudFormation to create multiple client node instances in AWS EC2 and have them automatically bootstrap into the new Chef 12 Server instance. Links will be provided to the CloudFormation template code used for the demo for example purposes.

Speakers

Randall Hunt

Developer Evangelist, Amazon Web Services

Randall Hunt is a Sr. Technical Evangelist at Amazon Web Services in Los Angeles. Prior to AWS, he wrote software for rockets and databases at SpaceX, MongoDB, and NASA. Python is his favorite language but he can sometimes be found in the dark realm of C++. Randall is an author and... Read More →

Scott McDonald

Sr. Consultant, Amazon Web Services

Scott McDonald is a Sr. Consultant with AWS Professional Services. Scott started his career 18+ years ago building and running a Linux based ISP. His Linux engineering career continued with a series of successful startup adventures that lead him to AWS. Scott can often be seen wearing... Read More →

Thursday April 2, 2015 2:10pm - 2:50pm PDT
Grand E/F

Breakout Session

2:10pm PDT

Cleaning up the Kitchen: Migrating to Enterprise Chef from Open Source

In 2013 we had over 50 open source Chef servers running at the company. Cookbooks were being used to great benefit over previous methods, however it was getting confusing. Cookbooks were being forked and changed without the names being refactored. It was sort of a messy kitchen.

We decided to align with Chef and move to the Enterprise Chef offering. Join me as I walk through many lessons learned in 2014 of getting 400+ developers from 40+ teams to learn to cook together. The result has been getting thousands of nodes into a more centrally manageable location. After I share how we got our kitchen in order, I'll share our plans and progress for 2015 of providing common building blocks of continuous delivery within a large company.

Speakers

Aaron Blythe

Knowledge Architect, Cerner

Aaron Blythe has worked in Software for over a decade. He is currently a Knowledge Architect at Cerner Corporation. He is genuinely curious and interested in understanding things and making them better. Aaron went to college at both the University of Illinois and Griffith University... Read More →

Thursday April 2, 2015 2:10pm - 2:50pm PDT
Grand C/D

Breakout Session

2:10pm PDT

Compliance at Velocity

Compliance has never been so important. Security breaches and the demands of regulatory bodies are a fact of life. At the same time, compliance has never been harder to manage. Regulatory frameworks are multiplying and becoming more complex, there is an ever-increasing number of devices, and the advent of dynamic provisioning means that environments are created that don’t necessarily follow corporate policy.

In this talk we'll cover the problems managing compliance in a high velocity business along with examples of how Chef analytics helps solve some of these problems.

Speakers

James Casey

VP of Partner Integration, Chef Software, Inc

James has worked for over fifteen years in companies ranging from mobile and finance startups to CERN, the large scientific collaboration in the world. He specializes in building tools for operating large computing infrastructures.He has previously created monitoring tools at CERN... Read More →

Thursday April 2, 2015 2:10pm - 2:50pm PDT
Mission City B4-B5

Breakout Session

2:10pm PDT

Package Management and Chef

This talk aims to cover a breadth of topics about package management and Chef, starting with some fundamentals and continuing on to more advanced techniques and tips.

This talk will begin by explaining why packages and package management are fundamental tenants to managing infrastructure. We'll examine why the common practice of simply running "make install" in a Chef recipe is a bad idea and what users can do when they see recipes like this in the wild.

An extremely common problem with package management is misconfiguration of package repositories and client software. Most of the existing documentation available does not cover all of the configuration required to correctly setup and access package repositories securely and lots of configurations are simply copy-and-pasted from unreliable sources.

In order to combat some of this, the talk will continue by examining some common Chef resources for controlling package repositories with care to carefully go over commonly misunderstood and misused options. We'll examine how to generate secure package repositories, what options must be set in Chef recipes to access repositories securely, and what bugs you may bump into in your infrastructure that may prevent you from securely accessing package repositories.

Finally, this talk will wrap up with some concluding tips, tricks, and thoughts about packaging and how to use it to carefully manage infrastructure.

Speakers

Joe Damato

Computologist, packagecloud.io

Joe is a computologist who specializes in low level systems, performance analysis, and debugging really weird things.He built packagecloud to help individuals and organizations quickly, easily, and securely generate package repositories for their internal infrastructure and for distributing software to customers... Read More →

Thursday April 2, 2015 2:10pm - 2:50pm PDT
Grand G/H

Breakout Session

2:10pm PDT

There and Back Again: How We Drank the Chef Kool-Aid, Sobered Up, and Learned to Cook Responsibly

When we first began using chef at Parse, we fell in love with it. Chef became our source of truth for everything. Bootstrapping, config files, package management, deploying software, service registration & discovery, db provisioning and backups and restores, cluster management, _everything_. But at some point we reached Peak Chef and realized our usage model was starting to cause more problems than it was solving for us. We still love the pants off of chef, but it is not the right tool for every job in every environment. I'll talk about the evolution of Parse's chef infrastructure, what we've opted to move out of chef, and some of the tradeoffs involved in using chef vs other tools.

Speakers

Charity Majors

Production Engineering Manager, Parse / Facebook

Charity is a Production Engineering Manager on Parse at Facebook, happily building out the next generation of mobile platform technology. She likes free software, free speech and single malt scotch.

Thursday April 2, 2015 2:10pm - 2:50pm PDT
Mission City B1-B3

Breakout Session

2:10pm PDT

Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) for Veteran Chefs

Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) is taking the Windows Server world by storm. Chef has been on the bleeding edge of configuration management in the Windows space and now Chef can leverage DSC resources. Join me as we take a look at how DSC works in the context of a Chef run, what DSC resources are really made of, and how you can take best advantage of DSC in managing your Windows servers with Chef.

Speakers

Damien Caro

Technical Evangelist Manager, Microsoft

Damien started at Microsoft in 1997 as European support engineer and has been involved since then with Information Technologies. In 2002 Damien moved to a position to help the largest customers run their IT environments and took over a Technical Evangelist position based in France... Read More →

Steven Murawski

Steven Murawski is a Community Software Development Engineer for Chef and a Microsoft MVP in PowerShell. Steven has been a serial early adopter and has been an advocate for configuration management and devops practices in Microsoft shops. While a Site Reliability Engineer at Stack... Read More →

Thursday April 2, 2015 2:10pm - 2:50pm PDT
Grand A/B

Breakout Session

3:05pm PDT

Baking Docker using Chef

Docker has changed the way Configuration Management is done. And Chef can be Docker's best friend to bake your favorite Config!
This session will cover -

Using chef containers
Managing docker images using Chef
Using Chef push jobs to run docker containers on nodes
And most importantly - why Chef is needed to manage dockers and why it all cannot be done with "simple" dockerfiles!

Speakers

Mukta Aphale

DevOps Architect, iHealth Technologies

Mukta is a DevOps Architect for iHealth Technologies where her job is to design and implement an awesome DevOps strategy for their new product. With over 11 years experience programming, DevOps stirred her interest recently. She started her venture into DevOps as a Chef developer... Read More →

Thursday April 2, 2015 3:05pm - 3:45pm PDT
Grand A/B

Breakout Session

3:05pm PDT

Bloated Chefs: A Tale of Gluttony, and the Path to Enlightenment

As your infrastructure grows and your recipes become more complex, you may suddenly find yourself with chef-client runs that take on the order of minutes to complete. With Chef being the primary mechanism for pushing critical fixes in many orgs, the amount of time it takes for the fleet to converge is of the utmost importance. Non-performant chef-client runs will impact both agility and your ability to scale, so keeping them lean can make a large impact in your operational capacity. You will hear tales of chef-client run duration horror, and how we at PagerDuty have brought our chef-client runs back to the land of ponies and rainbows.

Speakers

Evan Gilman

Operations Engineer, PagerDuty

Evan is responsible for designing and automating PagerDuty's resilient infrastructure. He previously operated AS4511, and has a passion for all things network. His less-passionate interests include beer, meat, looking at moon, and taking long walks on the beach. Well, maybe not the... Read More →

Thursday April 2, 2015 3:05pm - 3:45pm PDT
Room 209/210

Breakout Session

3:05pm PDT

Chef Provisioning: Chef All The Things

The applications you deploy using Chef need more than packages and services. Your machines and your network are key to your application's success. Chef Provisioning lets you build your whole infrastructure with the tools you already know and love. Learn how you can use Chef to:

Create, test, orchestrate and manage distributed clusters
Use image factories to quickly deploy large infrastructures and keep machines secure
Manage Docker containers and hosts

Speakers

John Keiser

Principal Engineer, CHEF

John Keiser is a veteran codeslayer of the internet age, having developed, tested and led teams at Netscape, Microsoft Bing, and now Chef for the last 20 years. In his current role as Mad Scientist, he focuses on making provisioning and configuration easy enough that even *he* can... Read More →

Thursday April 2, 2015 3:05pm - 3:45pm PDT
Mission City B4-B5

Breakout Session

3:05pm PDT

Chef Retrospective

With almost ten years of combined Chef experience, join H. "Waldo" Grunenwald from CommerceHub and Joe Nuspl from Workday for a short retrospective of our our Chef experiences at smaller companies.

CommerceHub is a monolithic Java-on-Windows shop moving towards Linux-hosted SOA.
Workday has more than 10,000 nodes across 11 physical data centers world wide plus external cloud providers.

Learn what worked for us, what didn't work, our triumphs, our defeats, and where we had pain and found dragons.

Speakers

H. "Waldo" Grunenwald

Pipeline Team Lead, devnull

Operations Engineering background, DevOps Enthusiast, Public Speaker, etc., etc...

Joe Nuspl

Senior Operations Engineer, Workday Inc.

Back in high school, I was seriously considering culinary school. I choose Computer Science. Who knew 25 years later I would be a "chef"?Currently I am a Senior Operations Engineer at Workday, a NYSE listed company (WDAY) that provides enterprise cloud applications for human capital... Read More →

Thursday April 2, 2015 3:05pm - 3:45pm PDT
Grand G/H

Breakout Session

3:05pm PDT

Compliance is Hard: Two Worlds at Odds

DevOps and Compliance are two very different worlds. If your company is going to achieve attestation or certification, it's usually the DevOps side of the house that has to give in. We'll have a frank discussion on what compliance means to you as a DevOps practitioner, areas where the two worlds collide, and how to use DevOps and automation to your advantage in an audit.

Speakers

John Martinez

Principal Solutions Architect, Evident.io

John Martinez is a recognized DevOps leader in the industry, and the Principal Solutions Architect at Evident.io helping customers engage security as part of their continuous deployment and integration strategies. He managed the Cloud Infrastructure team at Adobe prior to joining... Read More →

Thursday April 2, 2015 3:05pm - 3:45pm PDT
Mission City B1-B3

Breakout Session

3:05pm PDT

Now We're Cooking with INTUchef! Cultural Evolution at Intuit

Intuit is a company made up of diverse business groups and product teams. Left unchecked, silos can form that isolate the teams from one another. With such a large organization, it’s easy to find duplication of effort and divergence of solutions. Join us to see how by embracing a devops mindset and placing community at the center, we’ve been able to change our culture to one of sharing and mutual benefit.

We’ll demonstrate the value of starting from first principles that guide our decisions. Our journey has taken us from multiple monolithic repositories to a mix of project policy repos, backfilled with individual cookbook repos published through Supermarket. By maintaining alignment with our guiding principles, we can continue to adjust and evolve rather than reverse course, even when faced with conflicts and hard decisions.
We’ll also share our workflow, which takes full advantage of Chef Supermarket, encouraging contributions to and through the public community as the best path for internal consumption.

Together we can pave the way to a future where our servers take control and orchestrate themselves.

Speakers

Saman Garg

Staff Application Ops Engineer, Intuit

Shashi Shilarnav

Staff Application Ops Engineer, Intuit

Omid Tehrani

Sr Application Ops Engineer, Intuit

Michael Thibodeau

Staff Application Ops Engineer, Intuit

Thursday April 2, 2015 3:05pm - 3:45pm PDT
Grand E/F

Breakout Session

3:05pm PDT

Use Chef to Manage your NetApp Storage Infrastructure

Chef is an awesome tool for managing configuration of "all the things" in your data center. NetApp & Chef Software have created Apache 2 licensed Chef cookbooks for managing the configuration of NetApp's storage systems.

In this session, Jeff & Matt Ray (from Chef) will provide:

· A brief overview of NetApp¹s product portfolio
· Discuss the configuration objects that can be managed by NetApp's
Chef cookbooks
· Demonstrate the capabilities of the cookbook to manage running
storage appliances

After this session, attendees will have high level understanding of NetApp's product portfolio, the features of NetApp's Chef cookbooks, and
how it can be used in conjunction with a larger Chef deployment to enable
a software-defined and managed data center.

Speakers

Jeff Applewhite

Technical Marketing Engineer, NetApp

Jeff Applewhite is a Technical Marketing Engineer with NetApp’s Cloud Solutions Group. Jeff has an extensive background in operations, storage, high availability, and hosting large, distributed applications requiring the strictest Service Level Agreements. Jeff focuses on helping... Read More →

Matt Ray

Director of Partner Integration, Chef

Thursday April 2, 2015 3:05pm - 3:45pm PDT
Grand C/D

Breakout Session