Training Materials - chef-boneyard/chef-summit-2014 GitHub Wiki

Location

Medina, Thursday, 11:30

Convenor

John Fitzpatrick, curriculum developer, Chef

Participants

Summary of Discussions

Training, Fundamentals, Intermediate.

Using example code to build a Workshop bicycle app.

Downloading a chef cookbook, how to.

Wrapper cookbook. How to use community cookbooks and make a contribution. Collaborative version control. Lowering the fear barrier. This leads to a 1hour, tutorials.

Make testing a first class element of training. Introduce it early.

Dealing with a failing test, this should be a fundamental requirement

Infrastructure introduction.

New module proposal: Just enough ops for chef.

New instance of Just enough ruby module proposal: Just enough Ruby for Java devs. Current module is to introduce Ops to scripting. Java devs need help with closures & how the DSL takes advantage of method_missing, etc.

Advanced training, learn chef, common themes on advanced training - further work.

Use case based training - seen as desireable.

More on collaboration, contributing to cookbooks, supermarket, etc

More on deploying apps. Current training teaches how to write a cookbook. That's great for ops, but developers probably want to focus on how to deploy applications

Maslow's hierarchy of needs got a mention -

What will we do now? What needs to happen next?

Advanced training, learn chef, common themes on advanced training - further work.

Use case Base training - seen as desireable.

"We need 'just enough Ops for developers'"