Joshua Timberman interviewed at Velocity 2011
summary
Covers hands-on Chef training focused on concrete tasks: installing packages, deploying applications, managing users and integrating a database and app tier using Chef's search feature to dynamically build infrastructure. Students are technical (sysadmins and devs), sessions combine 1 hour lecture + 1–1.5 hour lab, and curriculum evolves from support sales and community input tracked in an agile backlog. Emphasizes the RESTful JSON API, examples of custom dashboards and monitoring that auto‑reprovision instances, and packaging automation for workstation and consumer use.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:17What types of people do you train
- 2:40Feedback mechanism
- 3:56Learning curve
- 5:29Dashboards
- 6:59Automation
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