chefconf.md

Chef is an amazing tool but to really unlock its potential you need to look at how it integrates with the rest of your technology. This presentation is the story of how the NFL used Chef to transform its siloed infrastructure and practices into something more agile, automated, and reliable.

This presentation will talk about the last 2 years of Chef at the NFL including how we integrated it into our virtualization infrastructure, load balancers, storage, and application performance monitoring. We'll talk about some things that Chef taught us about infrastructure-as-code that we were able to apply to other areas, and things we learned to make our cookbooks easier to manage across groups.

devopsdaysto.md

Waterboy is our Hubot instance that provides helpful information for both operations and developers. Our organization is somewhat atypical -- we are an external infrastructure consulting practice embedded into a development organization. This talk will cover:

• How we introduced a chatbot into the organization
• How we manage the robot and encourage people to contribute
• How we figure out what goes into the robot
• How we use ChatOps to facilitate communication between ourselves, and between us and the client.

People attending this talk will get a different perspective on the use of chat in a collaborative environment. It's not just shortcuts to memes, nor is it "hubot please go deploy the site and make me coffee". Chat can be a CLI to your organization. One that empowers employees and helps spread knowledge.