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“Packaging,” let’s talk about it - still your beating heart, dear listeners! We discuss the news, eats, and entertainment from ChefConf and then dip into the news from the OpenStack summit. As we meander between those two we also talk about kubernetes Helm, packaging, and how Docker is (they say) going to save you $50m in computer costs.

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• Chef Automate 2.0:
  • Don’t worry, it’s been rewritten in Go.
  • Scott Carey: “with the release of Chef Automate 2.0 during Chef Conf in Chicago this week, the company is focusing on building a platform on these three pillars: infrastructure, apps and compliance, setting the company up for wherever the future takes it.”
• CEO’s keynote summary.
• On-prem Habitat Builder.
• Chef Workstation.
• Matt tells you how suck out some InSpec stuff from Terraform.
• How CapitalOne uses Chef:
  • “[M]ore than 15,000 nodes for dev, QA, and production environments, all hosted on AWS”
  • They like public cloud (quote from 2017 article): “About 40 percent of our production workload is on AWS now. At 40 percent we are larger than Netflix on the AWS f