Episode 355: RR 348: Continuous Automation - Chef, InSpec, and Habitat with Nathen Harvey and Nell Shamrell-Harrington

Ruby Rogues

• Episode: Episode 355: RR 348: Continuous Automation - Chef, InSpec, and Habitat with Nathen Harvey and Nell Shamrell-Harrington
• Website: Ruby Rogues
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• Duration: 01:01:07
• Published: 2018-02-06 21:00

Panel:

Dave Kimura

Eric Berry

David Richards

Special Guest: Nathen Harvey and Nell Shamrell-Harrington

In this episode, the Ruby Rogues panelist speak with Nathen Harvey and Nell Shamrell-Harrington. Nell is the Senior Software Development Engineer at Chef, the CTO at Operation Code. Nathen is the VP Community at Chef. The topic of discussion is about Chef. Chef is a platform that enables teams to collaborate, share, and automate everything.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• What is Dev Ops? A cultural and professional movement, focused on how we build and operate high-velocity organizations, born from the experiences of its practitioners.
• Chef Automate - the platform that enables teams to collaborate, share, and automate everything.
• Cultural and Professional
• Continuous Automation - Chef, InSpec, Habitat
• 3 Main Focuses: Infrastructure Automation, Compliance Automation, Application Automation
• Instanbul, AWS Cloud, Etc.
• AWS Bean Stalk
• Chef works best at “Massive Scale”
• Where Chef shines!
• Tests
• More on compliance
• InSpec
• Things to do at the minimum?
• Talks about issues with infrastructure issues at Knight Capital
• Habitat - Application Automation, Build, deploy, run any application, anywhere.
• If you hate Dev Ops?
• Chef Community - Slack
• The best way to learn about each of these - https://learn.chef.io/#/
• and much much more.

Links: 

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathen
• Chef - Infrastructure Automation, Infrastructure as Code - https://www.chef.io/chef/
• InSpec - Compliance Automation, testing framework for infrastructure - https://www.inspec.io/
• In-browser tutorial - https://www.inspec.io/tutorial
• https://www.habitat.sh/  Tutorials - https://www.habitat.sh/learn/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/nellshamrell
• https://blog.chef.io/author/nshamrell/
• @NellShamrell
• @NathenHarvey

Picks:

David

• Zat Rana -https://medium.com/personal-growth/how-ernest-hemingway-became-an-overnight-success-3277b482c39c

Eric

• Operation Code 
• Code Sponsor is Back!

Dave

• Kreg Pocket Jig

Chuck

• AirPods 

Nell

• Blue Pearl Animal Clinic
• Darkest Hour

Nathen

• Dev Ops Days 
• ChefConf.com
• The Food Fight Show Podcast

Special Guests: Nathen Harvey and Nell Shamrell-Harrington.