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webinar
Watch: Writing Elegant Tests
On December 20th, I presented a live webinar on Writing Elegant Tests. Watch the recording below to hear me explain powerful RSpec features that you can use immediately to reduce code duplication, make your tests more expressive, and helpers that are exportable between all your cookbooks.
Read moreWebinars that rocked in 2016
By Jamie Bright
Chef webinars are a great way to learn about new products, integrations, and build your skills as a Chef practitioner. In 2016, we presented more than 30 live webinars to thousands of attendees across the globe.
Read moreThe Ruby Behind Chef
On September 14th I presented a live webinar on The Ruby Behind Chef. There is quite a bit of Ruby behind Chef and it is rather complex. Watch the recording below to hear me explain core Ruby topics by creating our own version of Chef: T-Rex Chef.
Read moreAwesome Community Chef Awards – 2016
The Chef community is full of many awesome individuals who contribute and do exceptional things every day. Each year at ChefConf, individuals are awarded the Awesome Community Chef award.
Read moreSpice Up Your Chef Usage on AWS
By Jamie Bright
Looking for ways to spice up your Chef usage on AWS? In this recored session from ChefConf 2016, Josh Campbell, a partner solutions architect at AWS, shows you how to leverage services like AWS Lambda, AWS Key Management Service (KMS), Amazon CloudWatch Events, and Amazon EC2 Run Command with Chef.
Read more[Watch] Chef Automate: Scale your use of automation
By Jamie Bright
What is Chef Automate? Chef Automate is our new approach to scaling up the use of automation across your organization. It builds on our open-source projects: Chef for infrastructure and cloud automation, InSpec for compliance automation, and the newly released Habitat for application automation.
Read moreWatch: Understanding the Chef Server
By Jamie Bright
On June 8th, Irving Popovetsky, Principal Customer Architect and Stephen Delano, Principal Engineer, presented a live webinar, “Understanding the Chef Server.” Watch the recording below for an overview of how it’s designed, how it’s packaged, and general advice on operating the Chef server at scale (monitoring, troubleshooting, etc).
Read moreWatch: Using Chef Compliance to Secure your Servers
By Jamie Bright
Can you prove your servers are hardened correctly? Can you patch zero-day vulnerabilities in minutes? How quickly can you generate the reports your auditors demand? With Chef you’ll get it done quickly using automation. Chef Compliance lets you express your compliance rules as code. You can easily run those rules as tests whenever you want.
Read moreWatch | Chef & AWS: Your Path to DevOps
On Tuesday, May 17th, I co-presented a live webinar covering a showcase of some of the latest Chef integrations with AWS. You can watch the recording below. Most of the components we presented have been available to you in the Chef framework for quite some time.
Read moreWatch: Why DevOps Won’t Automate You Out of a Job
By Lucas Welch
As automation lightens the load on IT operations personnel, and the DevOps cultural shift brings dev and ops together, people from managers to sys admins may be worrying about their jobs. Furthermore, as DevOps takes hold, other roles in the organization are set to transform.
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