Announcing the first official Chef cookbook contest! There are a ton of great cookbooks on the Opscode Community Site, but we know there are more out there in various states of completion. If you’ve got a cookbook you’ve been thinking of writing, or one that’s already close to done, now’s your chance to submit it and earn the gratitude [...]
I’m excited to announce Opscode and Chef will be coming to Charlotte, NC on September 14th. Seth Chisamore, Opscode engineer, will be giving an introduction to Chef and demonstrate how to use Chef in a cloud environment at the September meeting of DevOps CLT. This promises to be a great opportunity to hear about Chef from the source and [...]
I am pleased to announce that Opscode’s Chef Fundamentals open training materials have been updated to a new version. If you signed up for Open Training in the last month or so, you should have received a link to the updated materials. Highlights of the new release: Slide theme is consistent with the new web [...]
Our friends on the Cloud Foundry PaaS team at VMware just announced that Cloud Foundry now works across multiple cloud providers and is fully deployed and configured with Chef!
Opscode is coming to the Bay Area next week for .conf 2011, the 2nd annual Splunk users conference. We’ve done some exciting work with our friends at Splunk over the last few months and look forward to showing it off. The event runs from Monday the 15th through Wednesday the 17th at the Westin St. [...]
We’re excited to reach another Opscode Chef release, this time with over 85 resolved bugs. The gems are in the usual place. We’re also happy that this time the Debian/Ubuntu packages are available upon release. Head over to the installation page on the community wiki if you’re not familiar with these steps. Red Hat Linux [...]
Some history… In June of 2008, Adam Jacob, Barry Steinglass, Nathan Haneysmith, and I set out to (as Nathan put it) “Bring Infrastructure Automation to the Masses”. We were building what we believed could become the central configuration utility for the world’s infrastructure. Adam created Chef while we were still a consultancy called HJK Solutions, [...]
sysadminning? more like sysadwinning! #opschef #devops
