This is a full day hands on workshop intended to solve common problems for system administrators using Chef. We will walk through installing and configuring several components, including:
The goal is to be immediately productive and relevant to areas that system administrators are concerned with automating.
Attendees should have experience administering Linux/Unix systems and be comfortable working with the command-line. Attendees should also bring a laptop to work on that has VMware Workstation/Fusion or Oracle VirtualBox to run the provided virtual machine image. Attendee system requirements will be sent to those who have registered prior to the workshop.