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.