I recently did a customer call/demo around using Chef to patch Windows systems and I thought this would make a great post. However, I’m going to change one thing, we’re going review patching as a fundamental process and cover more than Windows.

Today, I’m going to detail out how we are setting up our pipelining process for all things Chef for our business unit partners. This process uses a combination of Chef, Jenkins, GitHub, a custom Jenkins Shared Library, and some custom developed utilities.

Let the continuous integration begin! It took a little tinkering (mostly around getting the FTP upload to work), but I have TravisCI working with GitHub. I’m planning to detail out the process in a future post.

I guess I should blog some of the stuff I’m tinkering with so I don’t forget what I’m learning.

I met a lot of really awesome people at ChefConf. One guy, named Daniel, and I were joking about blogging stuff and we said we should start a blog named Dear Future Self.