June 2011
Intermediate to advanced
90 pages
2h 21m
English
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The Chef Community
Chef has a large and active community of users, and hundreds of external contributors. Companies such as Sony, Etsy, 37 Signals, Rightscale and Wikia use Chef to automate the deploying of thousands of servers with a wide variety of applications and environments. Chef users can share their “recipes” for installing and configuring software with “cookbooks” on http://community.opscode.com. Cookbooks exist for a large number of packages, with over 200 cookbooks available on http://community.opscode.com alone. The cookbooks aspect of the community site can be thought of as akin to RubyGems—although the source of most the cookbooks can be obtained at any time from Github, stable releases are made in the form of versioned cookbooks. Both the Chef project itself and the Opscode cookbooks Git repository are consistently in Github’s list of the most popular watched repositories. In practice, these cookbooks are probably the most reusable IT artifacts I’ve encountered, partly due to the separation of data and behavior that the Chef framework encourages, and also due to the inherent power and flexibility accorded by the ability to configure and control complex systems with a mature 3GL programming language.
The community tends to gather around the mailing lists (one for users and one for developers), and the IRC channels on Freenode (again one for users, and one for developers). Chef users and developers tend to be highly-experienced system administrators, developers, and ...
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