Deploying OpenStack Sanely with Chef

JJ Asghar - Tuesday, February 2, 15:40-16:20 - B3.019

I would like to tell the story of the openstack-chef-repo and the mistakes I've made with it. This talk explains how the openstack-chef-repo was created, tested, verified, and failed. I introduce the openstack-model-t during this talk also.

About JJ Asghar

JJ is a Sr. Partner Engineer at Chef, he was also the PTL for the Openstack-Chef project. He lives in Austin, Texas and has been part of the OpenStack community since Diablo's release.

He enjoys a good strong stout, hoppy IPA, and some Dwarf Fortress. He's a member of the Church of Emacs, and attempts to push people to use Markdown over reStructuredText.

He's a father and husband, if he's not trying to automate his job away he's trying to convince his daughters to "let the bot's do the work for them."