Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP, slathered with a rich load-balanced layer of Mediawiki on top... Mmmm yum, comfort food. Using our most excellent application and database cookbooks from the Quickstart series we build a 4-course, data-driven, LAMP Stack meal. We've written it up and screencast a walk-through to help you learn Chef. We show you [...]
This is an update on the blog post we made a couple weeks back regarding the future of Opscode’s cookbooks and cookbooks repository. We are going to switch master branch to reflect the changes that have been made in the 0.10.0 branch this week. Aside from removal of a number of cookbooks (which has been [...]
Here at Opscode we have the stated goal of creating "Infrastructure Automation for the Masses". We won't rest until Chef manages EVERYTHING! And everything includes a whole lot more than Linux servers - it also includes our brethren on the Windows platform. To that end, I wanted to give everyone a quick update on some [...]
Enstratus is both a big supporter of Chef and one of the leading Cloud Management companies. As such, we were delighted to see the recent work they have done providing Chef integration as part of the newest Enstratus release. With Enstratus’ new integration, joint customers can… Easily configure a connection to an Opscode (or Chef [...]
Calling all Pythonistas! Would you like to deploy Django apps with Chef? Then check out the latest in our Quickstart series, where we give you full instructions and an accompanying video on standing up a Django CMS multi-node instance in Amazon E2, with a load balanced app tier and separate MySQL server. Especially for folks [...]
The following is a post from the folks at Cycle Computing, who are doing some mind-blowing work with Chef in HPC environments on Amazon Web Services. They were kind enough to let us cross post it here on the Opscode blog. Why Baking Your Cluster AMI Limits the Menu: DevOps for HPC clusters You may [...]
We have pushed out Chef 0.10 packages for Debian and Ubuntu to our repository. The wiki contains updated instructions, but I’d like to underscore the new repository naming convention. For Chef 0.9.x we have been using the following format for the repository: The codename, lucid in this example, would be replaced with the codename of [...]
Opscode is pleased to announce it has been selected out of a large pool of candidates as an MIT Innovation Showcase Finalist. Finalists selected “represent cutting edge B2B solutions that combine both value and innovation to Enterprise IT”. The Showcase is schedule for May 18, 6:15 pm at the Kresge Auditorium. If you’re in the [...]
If you are planning on attending Computerworld’s Open Source Business Conference you won’t want to miss Jesse’s participation in the panel discussion, “Open Source Built the Web, Now It’s Helping to Build the Cloud”. Panel Description: Just as with the web, open source is one of the core foundations of cloud computing as early cloud pioneers used the [...]
We’re making changes to the Opscode cookbooks repository about what cookbooks we include and how we provide support for them. As a large number of people rely on our cookbooks, we want to be clear about the intentions of the repository, and how we plan to release and support cookbooks going forward. The cookbooks in [...]
