ChefConf 2018
who it's for
platform engineers, devops engineers, infrastructure engineers, site reliability engineers, compliance engineers, automation engineers, engineering managers
topics
Chef cookbook development; Habitat application deployment; InSpec compliance as code; Kubernetes and Habitat integration; CI for chef-repo delivery; chef server high availability; macOS cookbook maintenance; Splunk integration with Chef; monitoring with Sensu; multi-cloud deployments (Azure, GKE, IBM Cloud)
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Easy ad-hoc remote tasts and the future of Chef on the desktop | Tyler Ball | 37m |
A new Chef Workstation beta ships a command called chef run that uses train for ssh and winrm to run single resources, recipes or policyfile bundles on remote… | ||
| How to Prepare for an Audit AKA Make Audits Suck Less | Seth Thoenen | 31m |
Organization runs 30+ audit engagements a year and uses Chef for config management, InSpec for checks, and Chef Automate for reporting; workflow is bootstrap… | ||
| How the Habitat-operator Brings Habitat Awesomeness to... | Indradhanush Gupta | 45m |
Habitat artifacts get exported to Docker images and a Kubernetes CustomResource of kind Habitat declares image, count and topology so the operator creates… | ||
| Production-ready Kubernetes and Habitat in 40 min | Joey Schluchter | 38m |
Creates a three‑node AKS cluster (demo shows creating five nodes in the portal), provisions a Azure Container Registry (standard SKU, notes ~5 TB), uses… | ||
| Cloud Compliance with InSpec and Automate | Victoria Jeffrey | 41m |
Automate 2 runs InSpec 2 scans across SSH/WinRM nodes and now account service API scanning for AWS and Azure, schedules them, and ships prebuilt cis aws… | ||
| Achieving Cloud Agnostic Application Deployment with Habitat | Scott Ford | 39m |
Claims a reproducible pipeline that builds a Habitat plan in a local studio into an immutable national-parks.hart artifact, binds it to a MongoDB package, and… | ||
| Captial One's Newly Designed Fully Automated, Scalable, and... | John Casanova | 42m |
Captial One's Newly Designed Fully Automated, Scalable, and Regionally Fault-tolerant Chef platform claims a concrete redesign: move from five stacks to… | ||
| Building and Running ASP.Net Applications in Habitat | Matt Wrock | 32m |
Builds a full‑framework ASP.Net sample with nuget and msbuild to restore, compile and web‑publish into a Habitat package, treats the .NET Framework as… | ||
| CI Techniques for Delivering the Chef-Repo: Three Case Studies | Lamont Lucas | 42m |
Chef-based CI automates macOS image creation using kitchen-ci with vagrant tied into VSTS and ships updates weekly; mac VMs are ~8 GB and can take up to 5… | ||
| Herding Cats: How to Get an Entire Organization Cooking with Chef | Brittany Woods | 37m |
Carfax deploys chef server and chef client with an Automate pipeline and Workflow tied into Bitbucket, managing about 3,000–3,500 nodes and roughly 200–250… | ||
| Embrace DevOps, Lead With Vulnerability | Sameer Doshi | 33m |
Argues that admitting ignorance and sharing ownership speeds DevOps adoption: team translates screenshots and PDFs into converted docs into script readable by… | ||
| Chef and InSpec Builds with Jenkins | Annie Hedgpeth, Nick Hudacin | 34m |
Claim: Jenkins runs Test Kitchen and reports results back to Bitbucket so pull requests fail fast. Implementation uses a multi-branch Jenkins pipeline… | ||
| Media and Analyst Q&A: Perspectives on the Present and Future of DevOps | Alex C. Williams | 44m |
Panelists argue that the market is mostly legacy: 1% using new tech versus 99% legacy, teams spend 75–90% of time on existing infrastructure and under 1% on… | ||
| IBM Cloud Automation Manager and IBM Cloud Private Making Your... | Bill Stoddard | 44m |
Claims that IBM Cloud Private plus Cloud Automation Manager give a public-cloud developer experience on-premise, backed by concrete tooling: Kubernetes, Cloud… | ||
| Meshing Legacy Systems with Habitat Deployed Components to... | Graham Weldon | 36m |
Built a three-tier IRC-like app (RethinkDB, Go API, nginx front end with React/webpack/yarn) and migrates it using Habitat by using a small number of changes… | ||
| PCI and Politics | Nicholas Klick | 34m |
ActBlue automates PCI compliance by moving a tokenized vault to AWS and using Chef for server hardening, Terraform for orchestration and terraform plan/apply… | ||
| Chef + Google Kubernetes Engine | Alex Stephen | 38m |
Demo builds a Python app into a Docker image by running a Chef cookbook once per image, pushes it to Google Container Registry, converges a GKE cluster (three… | ||
| Don't Burn Your Fingers with HPE Synergy and... | Nigel Wright, Anthony Rees | 23m |
Automated provisioning of HPE Synergy using Chef Automate actually builds networks, server profiles and streams OS images with BoxHugger and Image Streamer… | ||
| Cooperating Gault Tolerant Habitat #cheffriends | Sean Horn | 17m |
Claims a working pipeline built with Habitat packages, using Postgres staging and Redis Streams streaming module as the system of record; a simulator injects a… | ||
| Habitat Essentials - An Absolute Beginner's Guide | Ryan Keairns | 37m |
Habitat is a concrete, three-part model: a packaging system (plan file plus core plans and a studio clean-room for deterministic builds), a build service plus… | ||
| Don't Depend on a Single Chef Server Divide and conquer... | Jonathan Weiss | 41m |
Argues for replacing one monolithic Chef server with a federated model for Chef Automate on AWS: teams run their own Chef Automates to reduce blast radius… | ||
| Empowering Strategic Charitable Investments with Automation Science | Andrew Morris | 17m |
Gates Foundation uses InSpec and Habitat to automate compliance and deployments, turning Excel controls into InSpec profiles run via the audit cookbook every… | ||
| Chef and Habitat-powered Runtime for Stateful... | Amulya Sharma, Deepack Sihag | 24m |
Claims a working open service broker API for on-demand stateful services across AWS Azure and vSphere and shows what was built: VM provisioning with Chef… | ||
| Putting Governance Into your DevOps Processes | Vibhuti Sinha | 22m |
Argues that governance must be built into DevOps pipelines with continuous compliance not periodic audits, shows a live pattern for achieving 100% PCI DSS… | ||
| Chef & Sensu - Delightful Morning | Sean Porter | 21m |
Claims that Sensu 2.0 simplifies monitoring by removing external brokers and stores and exposing configuration via a backend API, demonstrates removes RabbitMQ… | ||
| Can an Enterprise Run Habitat? Or Course! | Nick Kirschbaum, Chris Maher | 40m |
Enterprise runs Habitat for four concrete projects: an internship builds a simple website in a Habitat ring and proves leader election across data centers with… | ||
| Global Scale App Arc with Habitat and Azure | William Stuart, John Kerry | 31m |
A node.js microservice is packaged with Habitat, deployed to bare Azure VMs via ARM templates and script extensions, and runs under Habitat supervisors that… | ||
| Developing the Essential macOS Cookbook at Microsoft | Jacob Zaval, Eric Hanko | 20m |
Creates and maintains the Essential macOS Cookbook at Microsoft and ships updates weekly, automates VM image creation using kitchen CI + vagrant image builds… | ||
| Build a Recipe for Success with Chef and Splunk | Domnick Eger | 10m |
Integration work shows Splunk ingesting Chef telemetry and using Chef Automate InSpec Habitat to surface deployment timing, failures, and security posture… | ||
| Seems Legit: Testing Cloud Provisioning with InSpec | Clinton Wolfe | 28m |
Terraform provisions ten resources; plan reports “10 to add” and apply completes successfully, but manual console edits create a rogue security group that… | ||
| Test Driven DevOps | Chris Todd | 33m |
Claims that stuffing InSpec tests into every environment creates a portable, declarative Rosetta stone for heterogeneous government pipelines, with a living… | ||
| Multi-Cloud Compliance As Code with InSpec | Martez Reed | 15m |
Claims that compliance can be automated across clouds and delivered on a tight schedule using InSpec with concrete tooling: AWS Lambda running InSpec to scan… | ||
| Chef @ Yahoo! JAPAN: How Chef Powers the... | Kenta Kawaharada, Ippei Suzuki | 40m |
Claims that Chef runs Yahoo! JAPAN’s infrastructure at scale: a single cluster managing 53,000 servers across 100+ services, with ~23,000 chef-client runs/day… | ||
| Managing the Unmanageable | John McCrae, Nike Dodge, Ryan Moon | 41m |
Claims: endpoints get bootstrapped to a working state with Chef plus an MDM and verified with InSpec. Tools actually used: microMDM, depnotify, Monkey for app… | ||
| Using Compliance to Quarantine: Remove The Risk and Rebuild Clean | Galen Emery | 20m |
A demo shows a compliance check triggering automated quarantine: Chef Automate with InSpec detects a failing control, fires a webhook to a listener that… | ||
| NFCU and Chef: A Year of Automating AIX, Linux, and More | Alan Thatcher | 14m |
Navy Federal automates AIX and Linux at scale: 2,400 servers registered with a ~10-person team and 130 cookbooks mostly custom. Configuration uses Chef Server… | ||
| Chef On The Train | Heike Hallenberger | 18m |
DB Systel runs a Chef-based fleet management system for 255 train sets, using Scientific Linux, KVM guests and AWS-hosted Chef servers to give each platform… | ||
| How Chef Helps Deliver the World's Most Powerful GIS... | Cherry Lin, Mark Carlson | 21m |
Claim: Chef cookbooks deploy and upgrade ArcGIS enterprise across Azure Amazon Alibaba Windows and Linux, handling portal server data store web adapters and… | ||
| Data-driven Postmortems | Jason Yee | 22m |
Claims that monitoring must meet four concrete criteria — well understood, sufficiently granular, tagged/filterable, long‑lived — and that failure to do so… | ||
| Automating a Payments Engine | Trevlin Pillay | 18m |
Claim: a vendor payments engine goes from a manual month-long deploy to 11 minutes by automating VM build and bootstrap via the bank’s skynet API, Chef… | ||
| Cookbook Quality Metrics and You! | David Aronsohn, Robb Kidd | 18m |
A set of cookbook quality metrics runs in the Supermarket and surfaces a 100 score when many checks pass; specifics include a Foodcritic lint pass, a release… | ||
| Y2K and Other Disappointing Disasters: Risk Reduction and Harm.. | Heidi Waterhouse | 39m |
Examines concrete outcomes not slogans: Y2K remediation consumes millions of dollars and thousands of person‑hours and thousands of programmers patched legacy… | ||
| How Rakuten became an Official... | Takaaki Furukawa, Rex Cerbas, Higb Fitzpatrick | 23m |
Rakuten becomes an Official Chef Training Partner by running a five day train the trainer engagement, delivering 10 Chef Essentials classes on Rakuten… | ||
| How SAp Leverages Chef Automation | Juan Carlos Martinez, Martin Schygulla | 22m |
Automated infrastructure at SAP uses Chef plus Terraform and Rundeck to run a self-service catalog that deploys 55 system templates and over 300 cookbooks… | ||
| DevOps is not a War | Chris Short | 22m |
Argues DevOps is not a war and that fear of change triggers a Thucydides trap cites 12 of 16 cases or roughly 75% leading to conflict cites a US Strategic… | ||
| VMware and Chef, What's the Ecosystem Like, Where Does Everything Fit? | JJ Asghar | 16m |
Claims concrete integrations and migrations: Chef provides multiple plugins that actually provision and configure vCenter, vRA and… | ||
| My Life in the Chef Community | Aaron Kalin | 23m |
A career built on specific wins: a cookbook that automates DNS records and handles Let’s Encrypt certificate provisioning to auto renew every 60 days, early… | ||
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