Monthly Archives: October 2011

Why Chef – A short video about Opscode Chef & Cloud Infrastructure Automation

Here is a short “Chef 101″ video introduction for Opscode Chef & Cloud Infrastructure Automation, covering what Chef is, how Chef works in public clouds, private clouds, and hybrid environments.

The Cookbook Contest is Over! And The Winners Are…

Thanks to everyone who participated in Opscode’s first Chef Cookbook Contest! We got some great submissions, all of which are now available on the Opscode Community Site. We liked the submissions so much we decided to give everyone who participated

Opscode Delivers Cloud Infrastructure Automation To Windows Environments

Release of New Chef Software Enables Automation of Windows Infrastructure, Including PowerShell, IIS, SQL Server and Windows Services SEATTLE – Oct. 24, 2011 – Opscode, Inc., the leader in cloud infrastructure automation, today announced its Chef™ software and commercially supported

Ohai 0.6.10 Released

We’ve got more Ohai fixes coming out the door today. A while back Gordon Thiesfeld came up with a solution for fixing codepages in Ohai on Windows and Doug MacEachern came up with the patch. Laurent Désarmes provided additional checks

Chef Training Guides

Unable to make the 3-Day Chef Fundamentals Training in Austin, but still thirst for training on the use of Chef? Let the Chef Wiki Guides quench your thirst! You’ll find a number of “Walkthrough Guides” that take you step by

New knife plugin for Voxel

Our good friends at Voxel have published a new knife plugin for provisioning and managing Voxel cloud instances. The gem is available on RubyGems and you can install it with gem install knife-voxel If you feel like digging into the

Ohai 0.6.8 Released

Mondays Ohai release had some regressions that we wanted to resolve right away, so we have another release for you today. Bryan W. Berry quickly found and resolved an issue where the new LSB support on Redhat based systems was

Ohai 0.6.6 Released

We’ve got a new release of Ohai, the tool that Chef uses to collect node data. Rubygems and Debian packages are available now. This release resolves an exception with StringIO that users of newer versions of systemu may be seeing.

Opscode Releases New Chef Software to Rapidly Deploy and Automate OpenStack Clouds

New Chef Cookbooks Developed in Conjunction with Dell and Rackspace Enable Rapid Deployment and Automation of Computing, Object Storage, Imaging Services, Monitoring and Authentication of OpenStack Clouds Seattle – Oct 3, 2011 – Opscode, Inc., the leader in cloud infrastructure

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