ChefConf

Are you building cookbooks for Windows Server? Wondering where Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) fits? Join me as we explore how to build Chef cookbooks that include DSC resources, and learn how to test them, troubleshoot them, and ensure their quality. We'll build a cookbook from scratch, using both in-box and community DSC resources, as well as Chef resources. We'll use a test-driven approach to ensure that our cookbook does what we expect it to do and make sure the DSC Local Configuration Manager is configured so that it does not interfere with our efforts to configure a server.

This workshop comes with an additional $225 cost to your ChefConf registration. You must be also be registered for ChefConf 2016 to participate.

Security breaches are commonplace, and in response, the demands of regulatory bodies (e.g., CIS, NIST, SOX) are becoming more and more rigorous. Staying ahead of this trend and successfully managing the compliance of your infrastructure, despite its increasing complexity, is crucial. This workshop, through discussion and hands-on activities, will teach you to use Chef Compliance to identify and remediate gaps in established security policies. You'll also learn how to ensure that your infrastructure's compliance is maintained on an ongoing basis. In this full-day workshop, you will:

• Install and configure a Chef Compliance server
• Learn and use InSpec to create and modify Chef Compliance policies
• Scan infrastructure to detect violations of compliance policies
• Correct compliance violations through the use of Chef recipes

This workshop comes with an additional $450 cost to your ChefConf registration. You must be also be registered for ChefConf 2016 to participate.

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Your knowledge of test-driven development has allowed you to defeat the simple cookbooks that live within your organization. Before you now stands a multi-platform cookbook that wields custom resources and helper methods, and that exploits search.

This adventure will test your mettle as we delve through these dark corners of cookbook development. You will strengthen your powers in RSpec, learn the wild secrets of the Ruby language, and begin the treacherous climb to Test Kitchen and ChefSpec mastery. Through carefully crafted exercises you will gain the skills necessary to accomplish the unthinkable and test such a cookbook.

This workshop comes with an additional $450 cost to your ChefConf registration. You must be also be registered for ChefConf 2016 to participate.

AWS Technical Essentials introduces you to AWS products, services, and common solutions. It provides you with fundamentals to become more proficient in identifying AWS services so that you can make informed decisions about IT solutions based on your business requirements and get started working on AWS.

This workshop teaches you how to:

• Understand basic data center design concepts.
• Recognize terminology and concepts as they relate to the AWS platform and navigate the AWS Management Console.
• Understand the foundational infrastructure services, including Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Auto Scaling, and Elastic Load Balancing (ELB).
• Understand the security measures AWS provides and key concepts of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM).
• Understand AWS database services, including Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS).
• Understand AWS management tools, including Amazon CloudWatch and AWS Trusted Advisor.
• This workshop is intended for:
• Individuals responsible for articulating the technical benefits of AWS services to customers
• Individuals interested in learning how to get started with using AWS
• SysOps administrators, Solution Architects and developers interested in using AWS services

This workshop comes with an additional $450 cost to your ChefConf registration. You must be also be registered for ChefConf 2016 to participate.

Join us for a hands-on coding session aimed at technical practitioners who want to do more on the Azure platform with Chef. The workshop provides an introduction to Chef with a focus on Azure integration. We'll address topics such as how to use Chef itself, how to manage Azure infrastructure within the Chef framework, and basic deployment scenarios. We'll put what we've learned into practice by writing and deploying recipes that describe system configuration policies, and by using Chef provisioning to spin up new instances and create a full-stack application topology that includes additional Azure services. The session will include insights from both Chef and Microsoft employees. By the end of the day, you'll be ready to get up and running with Chef on Azure.

This workshop comes with an additional $450 cost to your ChefConf registration. You must be also be registered for ChefConf 2016 to participate.

Chef Essentials is a comprehensive introduction to Chef architecture, as well as the Chef Development Kit (ChefDK) and its associated tools. At the end of this class, you will understand how to use Chef resources to create recipes and cookbooks, and how to use templates to automate your infrastructure's configuration, deployment, and management.

This workshop comes with an additional $450 cost to your ChefConf registration. You must be also be registered for ChefConf 2016 to participate.

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Are you trying to build cookbooks within your organization but are unclear about how to get your coworkers involved? Maybe you've learned the Chef primitives and architecture but you're not sure how to distill that knowledge into patterns that others can follow? In this collaborative workshop, we will spend the day working together to craft a community cookbook from scratch using both Chef and community resources. In the process, we'll learn some key patterns of DevOps practices.
You'll also learn about:
* Application deployment planning.
* Introducing repeatable, testable change.
* Measuring impact and quality.

This workshop comes with an additional $450 cost to your ChefConf registration. You must be also be registered for ChefConf 2016 to participate.

The ability to deploy at velocity is becoming increasingly important to enterprises. Chef Delivery provides a prescriptive model for achieving velocity across your entire stack, safely. Come learn how to use Chef Delivery so that you can maintain quality while quickly shipping features and bug fixes. In this class, you will:

- Install and configure a Chef Delivery server and build nodes
- Import and configure infrastructure cookbooks
- Import an application and write a build cookbook

You will leave this workshop able to deliver one of your applications with Chef Delivery.

This workshop comes with an additional $450 cost to your ChefConf registration. You must be also be registered for ChefConf 2016 to participate.

DevOps is a union of culture, process, and tools. This workshop focuses on developing the coaching competencies required to facilitate cultural and process changes in your organization. "New Rules for DevOps Radicals" is a one-day bootcamp for managers, Scrum masters, product owners, and operations and development leads who want to build on their teams' experience with Agile and move to the continuous delivery of high-quality software.
In the workshop we will learn to implement the ideas that empower teams to deploy at velocity. Silos beget supervision, supervision begets process. Your organization's structure is the product of its communication history (Conway’s Law). Learning is your only competitive advantage. (Stop anticipating the outcome, seek validation instead.)

This workshop comes with an additional $450 cost to your ChefConf registration. You must be also be registered for ChefConf 2016 to participate.

This dive deep into how the Chef Server works is designed for dedicated Chef Server operators; enabling you to plan for large scale deployments and be prepared to troubleshoot like a pro when things go awry. This is not a hands-on workshop, but instead will focus on making sure you have the information you need to be successful.

Specific topics for this session include:
How does the Chef Server work:
- a journey through the Chef server (learn the components and how they fit together)
- how it’s packaged (Omnibus, the “reconfigure” cookbook)
Planning a Significant Chef Server deployment:
- Topologies and their implications
- Essential team skills
- Monitoring and Metrics
Running Chef Server at Scale
- Advanced Monitoring and Tuning
- Operations Patterns
- Postmortems


This workshop comes with an additional $450 cost to your ChefConf registration. You must be also be registered for ChefConf 2016 to participate.

Have you ever been confounded by how WinRM works? Can't figure out what that cryptic error message means? Baffled by parsing on the PowerShell command line? Join Steven Murawski and learn how to troubleshoot Windows Server related issues, identify workflow constraints, and build up your suite of troubleshooting tools. We'll start with the 10 most common Windows Server issues (as guestimated by Steve) and learn how to troubleshoot them. We'll then open up the floor to cover attendees' questions. Finally, we'll work through troubleshooting issues with some servers that we've thoughtfully misconfigured for your learning enjoyment.

This workshop comes with an additional $225 cost to your ChefConf registration. You must be also be registered for ChefConf 2016 to participate.