Slides from my OSCON Chef tutorial
Yesterday I presented "Running the Show: Configuration Management with Chef" at OSCON.
It was the second time I'd given this tutorial, having debuted it at RailsConf earlier this year. The first time out I was beset my technical problems that, frankly, knocked my confidence and ruined the flow of the tutorial.
This time around I had no such issues, and everything went more smoothly. To properly show how Chef works, I'd brought with me an entire intranet of 4 virtual machines, 2 laptops and 1 plug computer complete with a local Ubuntu and RubyGems mirror. I wasn't taking any chances on having to use the internet!
There's a lot of material to learn about Chef, and I could easily teach for a whole day, or even two days. I think that is probably the biggest challenge left for this tutorial, as I felt the second half tried to quickly cram in too much in order to give attendees an overview of the possibilities.
You can download my slides as a PDF from the conference web site.
However, if you're into learning Chef, the best place to start too is the Chef Wiki and the Opscode cookbooks, which have great examples of how to idiomatically write Chef recipes.
My thanks to everybody who attended the tutorial!
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