Summary: Learn how you can utilize Chef to deploy Windows Azure resources in this DevOps interview with Senior Technical Evangelist Ross Gardler from MS Open Tech. Ross spends most of the time demoing how to initially deploy a Linux Chef server on Windows Azure, configure the Chef server, and connect the Chef client to the server - all using Chef knife-azure commands. More specifically at [07:28], we cover: [09:25] What is Chef used for?[10:20] Why is Microsoft integrating Windows Azure with Chef?[11:27] Demo: Deploying a new Windows Azure VM which runs Chef [15:40] Is there a gallery virtual machine image image which contains a Chef server?[13:45] Default.rb file to configure the Chef server[19:30] Can you use this to utilize Git repos such as with Visual Studio Online projects?[19:50] Demo: Bootstrapping the chef client to connect up to the chef server[23:45] What are the options to scale this infrastructure out to multiple nodes and all report in to the Chef server?[25:35] What are the recommended resources to learn more?MS Open Tech BlogChef deployment information to Windows AzureSign up for a free trial of Windows Azure - http://aka.ms/aztrial News: New Windows Azure Stuff Web Sites: Backup and Restore SupportManagement: Co-admin limit increased from 10->200 usersMonitoring: Service Outage Notifications Integrated within Management PortalVirtual Machines: VM Agent and Background Information SupportNew MVA course – Azure IoTNew Windows Azure A8 & A9 InstancesSharePoint 2014 Conference announcementsOneDrive for Businessnew Office 365 developer tools and APIsthe first service pack for SharePoint 2013new Office 365 social experiencesConnect with the Edge Team: Follow @tnedgeFollow @dtzar Facebook - Email
