Opscode is proud to be a sponsor of Seattle Beta Launch Event. Seattle Beta provides a social forum for young(er) start ups to mingle and present their wares. Twenty dollars gets you in the door for an evening of live demos and conversation. Come see what some of the new kids on the block have [...]
Opscode is pleased to announce we will be sponsoring the Enterprise Cloud Summit & exhibiting during the InterOp Expo at the Javits Center in New York City. Our Senior Technical Evangelist, Sean O’Meara, will take the stage during the Summit (October 3rd @ 4:10) to provide attendees with a quick introduction to Chef. Sean will also be [...]
In May we formed an internal group for open source ticket triage. It was populated with Opscode employees who had different backgrounds and roles but one thing in common: they volunteered to participate because they loved open source. In about 20 meetings, we have triaged over 325 tickets! With the increase of contributions, our irregular [...]
Just a friendly reminder that there’s only one week to go before we stop accepting cookbooks for Opscode’s first cookbook contest. Get your submissions in before the end of the month! Read more about the cookbook contest in the original blog post.
Join Opscode Senior Technical Evangelist, Matt Ray in Austin for a three-day comprehensive class covering the architecture of Chef and all of the underlying components. This includes: Creating Chef repositories, creating cookbooks and advanced tips & tricks with the of the Knife command line utility. This class will include lecture, labs and some comprehensive case studies. [...]
Join Opscode’s Director of Training and Services, Joshua Timberman, and Opscode Senior Technical Evangelist, Sean O’Meara in New York for a two-day comprehensive class covering the architecture of Chef and all of the underlying components. This includes: Creating Chef repositories, creating cookbooks and advanced tips & tricks with the of the Knife command line utility. This [...]
Opscode's Jesse Robbins is interviewed by Damon Edwards & John Willis of DTO Solutions on the DevOpsCafe Postcast. Topics include the origins of DevOps within Amazon & elsewhere, Jesse's culture hacks, and enterprise adoption.
Since the very beginning of this year, Opscode has been working with two other OpenStack pioneers, Rackspace and Dell, to make the process of building and deploying OpenStack as easy and consistent as possible. From those efforts emerged Crowbar, an open source “datacenter installer” released by Dell just a few months ago. Crowbar extends Chef [...]
We just returned from an extremely successful foray into Bio-IT World’s Cloud Computing Conference in La Jolla, Calif., where we were honored to present some of Opscode’s contributions to the world of cloud computing. The most exciting news was Cycle Computing’s announcement of the successful deployment of a 30,000-node cluster in the cloud, the first [...]
Kevin Smith, Director of Engineering at Opscode, will be coming down from Raleigh to speak at the Atlanta Erlang Users Group (ATLEUG) this coming Wednesday. If you live in the Atlanta-area be sure to join us as Kevin gives a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse and discusses how Opscode is improving performance and stability by migrating key [...]
