Nathen Harvey (@nathenharvey), VP of Community Development at Chef Software, joins us to discuss modern devops culture, tools, and practices as well as how Chef Software can help teams automate, scale, and reproduce tasks, and environments. Nathen defined devops as how to build high velocity organizations by reducing build and deployment cycles. Topics includes how to manage your infrastructure like code, devops community, Chef cookbooks and recipes, and improving your devops knowledge and processes as web developer.   Resources Chef & Habitat http://www.chef.io - Main Website http://learn.chef.io - Tutorials and such for getting started with Chef & DevOps DevOps Kung Fu - A talk from ChefConf 2015 that describes and defines the Principles, Forms, and Application of DevOps.  It’s also where I get my definition of DevOps from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DEToXsgrPc - YouTube video of the talk https://github.com/chef/devops-kungfu - GitHub repository of the talk http://chef.github.io/devops-kungfu/#/ - slides from the talk http://chef.github.io/devops-kungfu/#/15 - definition of DevOps - A cultural and professional movement, focused on how we build and operate high velocity organizations, born from the experiences of its practitioners. Open source Chef maintenance policy - https://github.com/chef/chef-rfc/blob/master/rfc030-maintenance-policy.md https://www.habitat.sh/ - Habitat website which includes an overview of Habitat, online demo, and tutorials Podcasts Food Fight Show - http://foodfightshow.org Arrested DevOps - https://www.arresteddevops.com/ DevOps Cafe - http://devopscafe.org/ The Ship Show - http://theshipshow.com/   Conferences DevOpsDays - http://www.devopsdays.org/ ChefConf - https://chefconf.chef.io/ Surge - https://surge.omniti.com/2016 Velocity - http://conferences.oreilly.com/velocity DevOps Enterprise Summit - http://events.itrevolution.com/ Puppet - https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet