Hello-
There is a new DevOps group in Chicago, and our first meetup is on
9/22 featuring a DevOps talk by John M Willis of Opscode:
http://www.meetup.com/devops/calendar/14528753/. Opscode contributes
to Chef, a Ruby DSL server configuration management tool that lets you
express the design of your infrastructure in code, giving you the
benefits of repeatability, agility, and version-control.
John will also talk about Configuration Management in the Clouds at a
Morningstar Tech Talk on 9/21:
http://www.meetup.com/Morningstar-Tech-Talks/calendar/14691645/
If you are in the area I hope you can join us!
Bio:
John M. Willis is currently the VP of Services at Opscode, Inc. John
has worked in the IT management industry for 30 years. He began his
professional career at Exxon as an IT infrastructure analyst. He is
the founder of four successful startups over the past 20 years Willis
is known internationally for his IT Management and Cloud blog. He also
has two podcast series on clouds called ‚”Cloud Cafe‚ and Droplets”.
Willis is also the co-host of Redmonk’s IT Management Guys‚ podcast
series.
-Matt