I had the pleasure of giving a talk at ChefConf ‘21 on how I had built out a process to setup local environments for the development teams. This had been a manual process, taking even senior developers days to weeks to set up a new system. As much was changing during this time documentation was not keeping up with the changes.

The talk discusses how we use Chef Infra, Test Kitchen and other tools to script the process to a few lines of code for the developer to run and get the end to end time to 45 minutes.