Episode #1, Chef in 2012

In this inaugural episode, we review the progress of Chef in 2011 and discuss the prospects for Chef in 2012.

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Introductions

• Bryan Berry bryan.berry@gmail.com Twitter/IRC/GitHub: bryanwb, http://devopsanywhere.blogspot.com
• Matt Ray matt@opscode.com Twitter/IRC/GitHub: mattray, http://leastresistance.net
• Eric G. Wolfe IRC/GitHub atomic-penguin, twitter: atomic_penguin
• Jay Feldblum ApplicationsOnline LLC; Twitter/IRC/GitHub: yfeldblum

News & Events

• SCALE 10x - 2012 Southern California Linux Expo
• Opscode Chef Fundamentals 2 Day Training - San Francisco
• Opscode Chef Hack Day - San Francisco (hosted by Lookout Mobile Security)
• RubyConf India, March 24-25 they are looking for speakers and sponsors. One of main organizers is the awesome Ranjib Dey, an active member of the Chef community
• There will be a Chef Conference, tentatively Q2 (and another Dev Summit in Q4)

Topic: Chef in 2012

• Opscode Year in Review
• Bryan's Chef in 2012
• Petey King's Response
• Chef 0.10.10 tickets
• Chef 11, near term roadmap and performance notes from the Summit
• Full Stack Client Installer (aka Omnibus)

Cookbooks Discussed

• Cookbook Contest
• bittorrent
• java
• firewall
• ufw
• apache2

Tools Discussed

• noah
• spiceweasel
• emacs chef-mode
• Crowbar

Picks

Jay

• Redcar text editor
• the specs for Mongoid
• Haskell the programming language
• StackOverflow

Penguin

• Chorizo & Sweet Potato Soup

Matt

• emacs confluence-mode

Bryan

• pry
• gnu screen
• Hunger Games Trilogy