Does Automation Replace Humans?

Somewhere in a land a long time ago, there was this steel factory in the heartland of Pennsylvania. In this steel factory there was a bulletin board on a factory floor room, and on the board were two large posters. The first poster was a reminder of the upcoming layoffs on Friday with procedures for filing paper work and such. The other poste... See the full post

Opscode Announces John Willis as New Vice President of Training & Services

  • February 3, 2010
  • By Jesse Robbins
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30-Year Systems Management Luminary to Lead Services Division of Fast Growing Infrastructure Automation Start-Up SEATTLE, WA—(Marketwire – February 3, 2010) – Opscode, Inc., a cloud infrastructure automation company, today announced the appointment of John Willis as the company’s new Vice President of Training & Servi... See the full post

Adam Jacob and John Willis to attend first Opscamp in Austin

The cloud has lowered the barrier to entry for businesses to own a data center; however, it has not decreased the complexity of managing applications and data center operations. OpsCamp is about exploring the opportunity to intersect ideas like agile development, continuous deployment, and data center operations to promote the rise of... See the full post

Chef Cooks In Atlanta

The week of February 8th Opscode will be having some fun in Atlanta. Josh Timberman @jtimberman, one of the Opscode senior engineers, will be in Atalanta to do some work with Chef community in Atlanta. Here are some of the highlights for that week. Chef “Bootcamp Workshop” Sprint Ignition Alley, Monday February 8th – 10th (9... See the full post

Opscode supports CloudCampHaiti - Jan 20, 2010

CloudCamp Haiti is a virtual unconference held as a public webinar. CloudCamp Haiti builds upon the popular CloudCamp format by providing a free and open place for the introduction and advancement of cloud computing. For this event, we are raising funds to donate to the aid effort in Haiti. Funds will be donated directly to the Red Cross efforts... See the full post

Happy Birthday Chef!

  • January 15, 2010
  • By Adam Jacob
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One year ago today, Chef saw its first public release . Since then, we’ve seen our community grow from a handful of people to one of the most vibrant open source communities around: 100 people have signed the Opscode Contributor License Agreements 52 different people (5 of whom work for Opscode) have committed to the project, giving C... See the full post

Chef 0.7.16 Release

  • December 22, 2009
  • By Adam Jacob
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Welcome to Chef 0.7.16, the “Bryan McLellan is looking out for you” release! 0.7.16 contains only two bug fixes, and both involve chef inappropriately setting file permissions in some cases. Bryan is this releases MVP, for making sure that we got the bug-fix release out the door. The first is CHEF-686, which was discovered and patc... See the full post

Automation is the Rule at Fotopedia with Chef + AWS...

  • December 16, 2009
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The Amazon AWS team just posted a great interview with Olivier Gutknecht of Fotopedia about the infrastructure they use to process the huge amount of information that makes up their (beautiful!) site. Fotopedia is the first collaborative photo encyclopedia. Olivier has been a Chef for quite some time, and is the also creator of the very cool Ca... See the full post

Opscode Holiday Open House in Seattle on December 16th!

  • December 11, 2009
  • By Jesse Robbins
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It’s time for the first annual Opscode Holiday Open House! We are opening up our Seattle headquarters to gather with friends, share some food and drink and, if you’re lucky, play a game or two of DJ Hero. We would love to have you join, so please RSVP if you plan to attend Details: Wednesday December 16th 5pm → 9pm PT 119... See the full post

Tuesday Crunchie Nominations for Chefs

  • December 2, 2009
  • By Jesse Robbins
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There are a lot of Chefs out there working on awesome startups big & small. We want to do everything we can to help get you the recognition you deserve. One way is by helping you to get Crunchie nominations. You can only vote once per category per day, so here is today’s list: Nominate the Chefs at Scribd for Best Social Network ... See the full post