Years ago, I did some time helping companies plan and build networks and computer infrastructure. Since then, in several companies, I’ve done my share of operations and IT work, but more recently I’ve found that I prefer to delegate that work to someone who finds it more interesting. I’ll be honest; I find the ever-changing complexity of systems configuration to be a frustrating, never-ending learning problem. (This particularly applies to mail server management.)

Over the past month I’ve been playing with Chef and the Opscode Platform and found that I absolutely love learning a new framework that gives me new development tools for solving an existing problem. This means that my argument, above, is entirely irrational. Let me put that another way: Chef is damn cool. Continue reading “Opscode Chef makes operations fun” →