Chef – On Windows? And Azure? Steven Murawski

© ITEdgeintersection. All rights reserved. Introduction  Overview  What Is Chef?  How Does Chef Work?  What About DSC?  Compliance at Velocity / Chef Audit  Chef and Azure

© ITEdgeintersection. All rights reserved. What is Chef?  Chef provides a domain-specific language (DSL) that allows you to specify policy for your infrastructure  Policy describes the desired state of a system  Policies can be statically or dynamically defined  Policies can be versioned (and version controlled)  Policies allow you to reduce complexity through abstraction

© ITEdgeintersection. All rights reserved. How Does Chef Work?  Analyze the node  Build the policy  Enumerate each resource in the policy  Test each resource and repair if necessary

© ITEdgeintersection. All rights reserved. What About DSC?  Desired State Configuration (DSC) was introduced in Windows Management Framework 4 and with Server 2012 R2  DSC provides a configuration management agent, a DSL to describe configurations, and a pattern for development of resources.  Sounds a lot like Chef… (and other CM tools)  But it’s built as a platform

© ITEdgeintersection. All rights reserved. Compliance at Velocity  Configuration Management with Maintenance Windows  Chef Audit

© ITEdgeintersection. All rights reserved. Azure  Chef VM Extension  knife-azure  kitchen-azurerm  chef-provisioning-azure and chef-provisioning-azurerm  azure cookbook  NOTE: This is a fast moving spaced and most of these projects are being updated frequently – especially with all the new ARM support

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