Infrastructure as Code With Joshua Timberman, Eric Sorenson, and Robyn Bergeron

Posted on Thursday, Oct 1, 2015

What does “infrastructure as code” actually mean? How is it different from configuration management? Special guests Joshua Timberman (Chef), Eric Sorenson (Puppet Labs), and Robyn Bergeron (Ansible) talk with Matt and Trevor about this very topic.

Show Notes

The Reddit post referenced in the episode:

Having a difficult time wrapping my head around test driven infrastructure

Transcript

Check Outs

Joshua:

Policyfiles! Webinar coming soon, or already happened!
ChefDK 0.8.0, especially if you’re starting to work with Policyfiles
Fat Scotch Ale - Silver City Brewing get it at SEA TAC! :D

Eric:

Dark techno/dnb from Grey Area in the UK
Ansible :) especially people using Ansible in conjunction with puppet and chef - @ me on twitter!

Robyn:

Eric: Lots of those peeps :) I am happy to help connect folks.
Ansible 2.0… soonish!
Fedora 23 beta: GO GET IT
SPLATOON

Trevor:

Welcome to the Dungeon boardgame
Rocket League

Matt:

Pac-Man 256 iOS Android
The Martian (audiobook)
Felicia Day’s audiobook, []“You’re Never Weird On The Internet (Almost)”](http://www.audible.com/pd/Bios-Memoirs/Youre-Never-Weird-on-the-Internet-Almost-Audiobook/B00XUTQ692)

Guests

Joshua Timberman

Joshua Timberman is a code cleric at Chef, where he Cures Technical Debt Wounds 1d8 lines of code at a time.

Eric Sorenson

After 16 years working as a systems/network administrator in the Bay Area, Eric relocated to Portland in 2012 to further develop his passion for awesome configuration management tools. When he’s not grooming backlogs for Puppet, he’s out enjoying Oregon’s trails with his partner Jen, son Gunnar, and neurotic-yet-lovable pointer Indigo.

Robyn Bergeron

Robyn Bergeron is a Community Architect at Ansible, building community bridges and inspiring contributors to do great things. She’s been a sysadmin, program manager, business analyst, and developer advocate in past lives, and started her career in open source at Red Hat, where she was the Fedora Project Leader.

Hosts

Matt Stratton

Matt Stratton is a Transformation Specialist at Red Hat and a long-time member of the global DevOps community. Back in the day, his license plate actually said “DevOps”.

Matt has over 20 years of experience in IT operations, ranging from large financial institutions such as JPMorganChase to internet firms including Apartments.com. He is a sought-after speaker internationally, presenting at Agile, DevOps, and ITSM focused events, including DevOps Enterprise Summit, DevOpsDays, Interop, PINK, and others worldwide. Matt is the founder and co-host of the popular Arrested DevOps podcast, as well as a global organizer of the DevOpsDays set of conferences.

He lives in Chicago and has three awesome kids, whom he loves just a little bit more than he loves Doctor Who. He is currently on a mission to discover the best phở in the world.

Trevor Hess

Trevor Hess is a Senior Product Manager at Progress Software working on Chef Software. He currently works on the Chef Application Delivery, Compliance and Infrastructure offerings.

Coming from a background in .NET Software Development and consulting, he has worked with several large multinational organizations to help kick start their journey to the cloud and the world of DevOps practices and principals. He is excited to engage in new experiences, and learning opportunities.

Trevor enjoys having hearty discussions about DevOps as well organizational change and transformation.