Chef + Azure = Awesome

CHEF + AZURE =

AWESOME

AGENDA

• Introductions• What is Azure?• What is Chef?• Azure + Chef = Awesome• Q & A

INTRODUCTIONS

• Jeff Rak: Senior Consultant, 10th Magnitude– [email protected]– @rak386

• Matt Stratton: Solutions Architect, Chef– [email protected]– @mattstratton

WHAT IS AZURE?

• Microsoft’s public cloud platform– Mobile Services– Web Apps– Big Data– Identity and Access Management– And more!

• Azure Virtual Machines– Think about it as “Hyper-V in the sky”– Infrastructure as a Service

• Operating System Options– Windows 2008 R2 – Windows 2012 R2– Ubuntu– CentOS– SUSE– BYO-OS

WHAT IS AZURE?

• Manageable from any OS– API-driven– Web portal– PowerShell – Cross-platform tools (node.js)

• Pre-licensed workloads of common tools– SQL Server– BizTalk– SharePoint– Oracle– Or bring your own license

DEMO

WHAT IS CHEF?

• Chef is an Automation Framework• Think of Chef as Infrastructure as Code• Chef’s server is completely API driven. • Uses an utility called ‘knife’ on a workstation to talk to

the Chef server• Chef uses Ruby for extensibility/ meet your current &

future needs.• Chef supports Linux variants, Unix variants, AIX and

Windows, all as first class citizens.

WHAT IS CHEF?

• Resource– A definition of an action that can be taken (install a

package or manage a configuration file)• Recipe

– A collection of resources– Resources are executed in order

• Cookbook– A set of recipes– Defined set of items and outcomes for a system

WHAT IS CHEF?

Feature Benefit

Multi-Tenancy • Reduce costs & management complexity by combining individual Chef servers.

High Availability • Automated failover & load balancing.

Role Based Access Control (RBAC) • Granular control of user privileges.• Helps meet compliance & security concerns.

Enhanced Management Portal with Reporting & Audit Logs

• Generate reports & graphs for entire organization down to individual nodes.

Push • Provides a mechanism to push configurations. Examples – emergency change control.

Centralized authentication using LDAP and Active Directory/AD

• Leverage existing investment in Enterprise identity.• Manage Chef usage with corporate credentials.

Enhanced Enterprise Support • From Premium 24x7 support to Customer Success Engineering.

• Enterprise Chef provides service owners with piece of mind.

Unparalleled Flexibility • As a licensed user of Chef you can use both an on premises version of of Chef as well as the Chef hosted SaaS offering.

AZURE + CHEF = AWESOME

Q&A

CONTACTS

• Jeff Rak: Senior Consultant, 10th Magnitude– [email protected]– @rak386

• Matt Stratton: Solutions Architect, Chef– [email protected]– @mattstratton

• 10th Magnitude– www.10thmagnitude.com– @10thMagnitude

• Chef– www.getchef.com– @chef