Opscode Will Be At VMworld Next Week

  • August 27, 2010
  • By John Willis

A few of us from the Training, Services and Evangelism team will be presenting at VMworld next week. Automate Application Deployment to vCloud Services Monday 03:00 PM (Moscone North Room 130) Adrian Cole Leveraging an Enterprise-Ready vCloud Service to Regain IT Control Format Tuesday, 3:30 PM   (Room: Moscone West Room 2006) Thursday... See the full post

Opscode is hiring a Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)

  • August 24, 2010
  • By Jesse Robbins

As many of you know, over the past 18 months, Chef has become the standard for cloud infrastructure automation, and is used by RightScale, EngineYard, VMware, Rackspace, OpenStack, and many others. Chef works anywhere: in data-centers, inside virtual machines, on desktops, and in the cloud. Thousands of organizations use Chef to manage their i... See the full post

Chef 0.9.8 and Mixlib Authentication 1.1.4 Released

  • August 5, 2010
  • By Daniel DeLeo

Today I’m happy to announce the release of Chef 0.9.8, which is the first major feature update to the Chef 0.9 line and contains improvements and bug fixes in nearly every part of chef. Bootstrapping With Flavor Courtesy of many-time MVP Ian Meyer we now have support for using custom bootstrap scripts with knife. To use one of the provide... See the full post

Cloudy Operations and Devops Presentation at OSCON 2010

  • July 29, 2010
  • By John Willis

Cloudy Operations – OSCON 2010 View more presentations from John Willis. See the full post

Chef Java Configuration on Google App Engine

  • July 26, 2010
  • By John Willis

Using tools like Chef, you can connect metal or cloud provisioning to your configuration and systems integration process. For example, you can use the tool knife to provision cloud nodes and also register them in chef. When chef takes over, these cloud nodes become managed and visible in the same console as the rest of your infrastructure. Confi... See the full post

O'Reilly Webcast: Automated Infrastructure is on the Menu with Chef

Last week, O’Reilly recorded a webcast preview and introduction for the Automated Infrastructure is on the Menu tutorial that Aaron Peterson and I will be presenting at OSCON on July 20th. This video is posted on YouTube, and embedded below: See the full post

What Devops Means to Me

  • July 16, 2010
  • By John Willis

I have been in IT operations for over 30 years and I have seen a lot of good and bad ideas come and go.  I have been following the Devops movement for over a year now and I have kept my eyes very focused to the Devops radar.  To me Devops is one of the most interesting ideas that I have seen in the last 30 years.  Like any new ide... See the full post

Latest analyst report on Opscode Platform & Chef from 451 Group

  • July 14, 2010
  • By Bryan Hale

Rachel Chalmers , Research Director at the 451 Group , recently published a Market Development note on Opscode , saying: "Opscode will celebrate its second birthday in September, and there will be plenty to celebrate. The company has raised $11m in a series B funding round from Battery Ventures and Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Draper also l... See the full post

Chef Training Class in San Francisco 7/26/2010

  • July 13, 2010
  • By John Willis

Chef Fundamentals (3 Days) Chef Fundamentals is a three-day comprehensive class covering the basic architecture of Chef and all of the underlying components. We will be covering installation basics of Chef Client and Chef Solo. Other topics will include: creating Chef repositories, creating cookbooks and advanced using of the new command line ut... See the full post

Open Source Chef Training - Open Training

  • July 13, 2010
  • By John Willis

Today we announced the launch of our Open Training program in which we will make all of its enterprise training materials freely available to users of Chef. With today’s announcement, the Opscode "Chef Fundamentals" class will be released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0 License. The class is being made ... See the full post