I was invited by the Carnegie Mellon Information Systems Department to speak about "DevOps". These are the slides from that talk. I posed the following question to the students and asked them to keep it in the back of their minds as we discussed the creation an...

As you may have seen across the various repositories on GitHub, README badges are all the rage these days. Whether it is Travis CI, Code Climate, or GitTip, it seems like all developers ever do is badge!

Originally given at ChefConf 2014, this talk simply titled "Chef Sugar" covers the who, what, when, where, and why for Chef Sugar. The talk begins as a small history lesson, but ends by diving deep into the Ruby internals of Chef Sugar to see who everything is ...

A few months ago, I blogged about a thing called Chef Sugar. To quickly refresh your memory, Chef Sugar is an extension of the Chef core, recipe DSL, and select resources designed to make life as a Chef engineer as awesome as possible. I first wrote Chef Sugar ...

The Vagrant Berkshelf plugin has been rewritten to shell out to the berks CLI packaged with the ChefDK. There seems to be some confusion about this post. We are deprecating vagrant-berkshelf, a plugin for integration Berkshelf with Vagrant. We are not depecatin...

How do you do code coverage with Chef?