devops-knox-talk-outline.txt

Intro
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What is "Chef?" (talking about client and server, other products out of scope)
ChefDK components
  - Chef CLI tool
  - Berkshelf
  - Test Kitchen
  - ChefSpec
  - Foodcritic
  - Knife
  - Chef-client
  - Ohai
Recipes/resources/attributes (recipes are made of resources and contain logic, attributes contain data)
Custom resources (can be a collection of other built in resources, or totally new functionality)
Chef is Ruby!

Advanced
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Resources vs. Providers
Testing!  (ChefSpec, Test Kitchen, foodcritic, rubocop, CI)
Two pass model (Compile and Converge)
Roles and Environments
Search (knife and recipe)
Cookbook patterns
Handlers

Learning Resources
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learnchef
kitchen.ci
Learning Chef (book)

Demo
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Configure a multi node app environment using search, data bags, environments, etc