NFCU and Chef: A Year of Automating AIX, Linux, and More
summary
Navy Federal automates AIX and Linux at scale: 2,400 servers registered with a ~10-person team and 130 cookbooks mostly custom. Configuration uses Chef Server with roles/environments, Chef DK, GitHub appliance for code review, and middleware work for IBM WebSphere. Test Kitchen fails in the isolated network so engineers build Chef Zero over SSH hitting static AIX/dev machines (rebuilds via powerVC) and report it works; hashicorp vault planned for secrets.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:30NFCU Overview
- 1:44Culture
- 2:23Trust
- 3:03Communication
- 3:40Goals
- 4:31Technology
- 10:07Questions
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