tuesday, August 12, 2025 | Kansas City
Chef Practitioner Workshop
DevOps teams need strong fundamentals and technical expertise with the tools their organizations use for Development, IT, Operations, Security and Compliance.
Join us in Kansas City (H&R Block's headquarters) to deepen your DevOps knowledge alongside other Progress Chef practitioners at our Hands-On Practitioner Workshop Tour '25. This interactive event will cover architectural best practices across various tools and give you practical lab experience with our newest offerings, Chef Courier and the Chef 360 Platform.
If you use Chef to manage your infrastructure, or if you’re curious to learn how we are a leader in the DevOps sector, then this is a must-attend event! Participation is free.
Why Attend?
Our hands-on Chef workshops are built and delivered by engineers, for engineers, to help you and your teams make the most of your Chef investment and solidify your daily DevOps practices.
Join us to:
- Interact with Chef technical and community leaders.
- Complete practical labs, applying Chef to solve problems for familiar use cases.
- Learn where Chef and the industry are headed.
- Deepen your connections and make new friends at our evening social event.
Do not miss this opportunity to learn recommended new development patterns and best practices for leveraging our current and future capabilities.
Ready to become better equipped for success with Chef?
Agenda
| 8:00–9:00 a.m. | ● | Registration and Welcome Coffee |
| 9:00–9:45 a.m. | ● | Welcome Note & What's New with Chef |
| 9:45–11:15 a.m. | ● | Chef Best Practices Intro and Test Kitchen |
| 11:15–11:30 a.m. | ● | Mid-Morning Break |
| 11:30–12:15 p.m. | ● | Building Custom Resources |
| 12:15–1:00 p.m. | ● | Compliance Phase |
| 1:00–2:00 p.m. | ● | Lunch |
| 2:00–3:15 p.m. | ● | Target Mode / Agentless Chef |
| 3:15–3:30 p.m. | ● | Mid-Afternoon Break |
| 3:30–4:30 p.m. | ● | Welcome to Chef Courier |
| 4:30–5:00 p.m. | ● | What Comes Next? Looking ahead to Chef 360 |
| 5:00–5:30 p.m. | ● | Closing Remarks and Break |
| 5:30–8:00 p.m. | ● | Evening Mixer (dinner and networking) |
Presenters
Jeff Strauss
Head of Developer Relations
Gavin Fletchall
Senior Director, Software Engineering
Marc Paradise
Senior Principal Software Engineer
Mike Butler
Principal Solution Architect
Register for Free
Fill out the form below to register. If you have any questions, feel free to send us an email.
Contact Us
Email us at Chef-Community@progress.com