February 2009 Archives
Chef 0.5.4
- February 13, 2009
- By Adam Jacob
Hello! It’s time again for a new release of Chef - this one is chock full of interesting bug fixes, a few new features, and lots of feedback. This release’s MVP is Arjuna Christensen (fujin!) - we went to bed last night with 6 bugs in the 0.5.4 release, and woke up this morning with none, and that was totally awesome-tastic. ... See the full post
Sometimes grandchildren are pesky
- February 3, 2009
- By Adam Jacob
When you are building a configuration management system, one of the things you learn quickly is that you are going to hit a ton of edge cases. Many of these edge cases are the result of applications that were not written with automation in mind. As but one example, many applications do not change their exit code when they have an error - making... See the full post
Chef 0.5.2 and Ohai 0.1.4
- January 31, 2009
- By Adam Jacob
Hi everyone! I’m pleased to announce the release of Chef 0.5.2 and Ohai 0.1.4. I’m giving this releases MVP award to Bryan McLellan, who added support for Cron, Routes, and FreeBSD in the last two weeks. Way to go, sir. Summarized list of changes: Chef Bryan McLellan added FreeBSD package and service providers, making Chef a... See the full post