Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah... Chef, Vagrant, AWS....

Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah... Someone's in the kitchen I know.....

C'mon down and meet Opscode's Chef, the latest and greatest inheritor to the automated configuration and deployment management crown.

Learn how to automate your server builds, configurations, and build a repeatable process for your deployment.

Then learn how to use Vagrant. Great as a tool for repeatable processes for spinning up development, staging and testing environments locally using VirtualBox-backed virtual machines.

Then get ready to play with the big boys and spin those configurations up to Amazon. You'll get your face melted with dozens of Amazon-created acronyms (EC2, RDS, SNS, SES, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, S3, Glacier...), and learn the technology to put together your own high performance, custom (and REPEATABLE) server infrastructure stacks.