Monthly Archives: April 2009

Chef 0.6.2 Release

We had a slight bug sneak in to the 0.6.0 release: new installations were not properly running the chef-client. We’re shipping 0.6.2 right now to fix that bug, rather than in a few weeks. Thanks to Edd Dumbill and our

Chef 0.6.0 Release

Hello! How are my favorite cooks? Its been a while since our last release (around twice as long as we prefer, actually,) but we make up for our tardiness with a whole heap of fabulous for you. We begin, as

Opscode at RailsConf 2009

Opscode will be at RailsConf 2009 in Las Vegas next week, May 4-7.I will be attending in support of Edd Dumbill's Chef tutorial on Monday at 8:30am. I will also be available afterward, and throughout the conference to answer questions

Opscode Announces $2.5 Million in Series A Round

OPSCODE ANNOUNCES $2.5 MILLION IN SERIES A ROUND Draper Fisher Jurvetson Leads Round in Infrastructure Automation Start-up Founded by Former Amazon.com Operations and Cloud Computing Experts SEATTLE, Wash – April 24, 2009 – Opscode, Inc., a cloud infrastructure automation company,

Chef Cookbook for Rsyslog

Log management is an area of operations that is often sorely lacking. For Linux/Unix systems, log management is much easier with a centralized syslog server. Yet many organizations don't set one up. Oft-cited reasons are that Unix syslog is unreliable,

Infrastructure in the Cloud Era

The talk Ezra and I gave at the Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco is up on Slideshare. Highlights included our building an ad-hoc cloud via Nanite, laptops quoting Wargames, and more than one mention of Ponies, Unicorns, and Meatclouds. Thanks

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