Jul
30
Cloudy Operations and Devops Presentation at OSCON 2010
By John Willis
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Cloudy Operations – OSCON 2010 View more presentations from John Willis.
Jul
26
Chef Java Configuration on Google App Engine
By John Willis
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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 [...]
Jul
16
O’Reilly Webcast: Automated Infrastructure is on the Menu with Chef
By Joshua Timberman
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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:
Jul
16
What Devops Means to Me
By John Willis
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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 [...]
Jul
14
Latest analyst report on Opscode Platform & Chef from 451 Group
By Bryan Hale
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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 [...]
Jul
13
Chef Training Class in San Francisco 7/26/2010
By John Willis
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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 utility called Knife. [...]