Chef - Configuration management for your Cloud!

Agenda

This presentation will discuss what the requirements of modern configuration management tools are, and then move on to how Chef addresses this.  A discussion of the technical architecture of Chef will precede demonstration of the suite including its tools and extensions for hard-core command-line junkies.  It's going to be fast-paced and aimed at developers, administrators, and infrastructure folk.

Bio

Alan Milligan is the SIG convenor and Principal Architect at Last Bastion Network.  In recent years, Alan has found himself specialising in the emerging discipline of DevOps, where he has been recommending Chef as the most aggressive and productive of a new wave of configuration management tools for public and private clouds.