The immediate benefit of virtualizing all the resources that collectively constitute the infrastructure of your data center, as Chef has professed since its beginnings as OpsCode, is to address those resources programmatically and build systems with code. Which is nice, but the moment that happens, you and your fellow developers may notice the compliance department asking for a meeting at your earliest convenience.

Indeed, that’s exactly what happened with Chef’s engineers.

Dominik Richter, Chef’s head of compliance, spoke with TNS Founder Alex Williams for this latest edition of The New Stack Makers podcast, from the ChefConf 2017 conference in Austin, Texas.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/-bpdz_7BnD4