#cfgmgmtcamp

2 and 3 February 2015

Gent, Belgium

Community cookbooks

Zachary Stevens - Monday, February 2 14:40-15:00 - B.4.039

The community site was one of the ideas I loved when I first started to use Chef, and I believed that community cookbooks should be an asset to every user of Chef.

Unfortunately, they're not. The situation doesn't seem to be getting any better either, and I've reluctantly joined the "avoid using community cookbooks" camp.

This talk will explore:

  • why community cookbooks are a good idea in theory
  • why community cookbooks are a bad idea in practice
  • what we can do to improve the situation (instead of giving up on it)

About Zachary Stevens

Zac wears many hats, but mostly the ones labeled "system administrator" and "technical manager". His current preoccupation is as technical co-founder of Elastera. Zac is also a co-organizer for the Chef Users London meetup.