The Web Platform Podcast

Nathen Harvey (@nathenharvey), VP of Community Development at Chef Software, joins us to discuss modern devops culture, tools, and practices as well as how Chef Software can help teams automate, scale, and reproduce tasks, and environments. Nathen defined devops as how to build high velocity organizations by reducing build and deployment cycles. Topics includes how to manage your infrastructure like code, devops community, Chef cookbooks and recipes, and improving your devops knowledge and processes as web developer.   Resources Chef & Habitat http://www.chef.io - Main Website http://learn.chef.io - Tutorials and such for getting started with Chef & DevOps DevOps Kung Fu - A talk from ChefConf 2015 that describes and defines the Principles, Forms, and Application of DevOps.  It’s also where I get my definition of DevOps from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DEToXsgrPc - YouTube video of the talk https://github.com/chef/devops-kungfu - GitHub repository of the talk http://chef.github.io/devops-kung