March 2009 Archives

Opscode at Web 2.0 Expo SF 2009

  • March 31, 2009
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Opscode will be out in force at Web 2.0 Expo this week in San Francisco.Thursday morning at 10:30am I'll be on a panel discussing Cloud Operations.  Then, Thursday afternoon at 2:40pm, our CTO, Adam Jacob, will be presenting with Ezra Zygmuntowicz on Automated Cloud Infrastructure.  Our CEO, Jesse Robbins, will also be in attenda... See the full post

Web Applications Are a Breeze with Chef

Just about everyone who works at Opscode comes from a heavy web operations background. Those who work in webops know that getting an Apache server configured and ready to run applications with various languages and frameworks can be a difficult task. Not only do we have a plethora of languages to choose from, there's a variety of fram... See the full post

Opscode hosting Seattle.rb this Tuesday at Zeitgeist

  • March 12, 2009
  • By Barry Steinglass

Opscode will be hosting the Seattle Ruby Brigade's hack night next week, at Zeitgeist Coffee in Pioneer Square. Come on down to meet us and hang out with fellow ruby aficionados.Where: Zeitgeist CoffeeWhen: March 17, 7-9pmWe'll have free drinks available until we run out of them, and we'll have the place to ourselves. ... See the full post

Ohai 0.2.0

  • March 5, 2009
  • By Adam Jacob

Ohai, we prepared a new release for you! The Ohai 0.2.0 MVP is Thom May. Thom checked out Ohai, and immediately wrote a Python Language Plugin. He then just kept on fixing bugs - he made tests better, he fixed an exception caused when systems didn’t have a fully qualified domain name, and he patched up the virtualization plugin for V... See the full post

Chef 0.5.6

  • March 5, 2009
  • By Adam Jacob

Look at what the Chef community has cooked up for you - a brand new release! The Chef 0.5.6 release MVP is Sean Cribbs, of Radiant CMS fame. Sean has been a steady presence in the burgeoning Chef community - asking questions, filing bugs, and contributing patches. In this release he whipped up a particularly awesome addition to the debug ... See the full post