When you utilize cloud resources as a commodity, it can sometimes be hard to differentiate between individual systems. While testing some Chef installations on EC2 instances I asked myself, “which of these instances registered with my Chef server did I create a few hours ago?” I considered searching through nodes for attributes that ought to [...]
For the holidays this year, we really want to give our fellow Windows Systems Administrators a leg-up in the devops cultural revolution. What better way to tear down walls and bring together two groups with historically opposed expectations from their company leadership, than with a common tool. For too long we’ve spent our careers waiting [...]
It is likely that you have already heard about Windows support in Chef, from early blog posts on the work to press releases. But, one milestone that we have reached that may have slipped under your radar is the Chef installer for Windows. Everything you need to run Chef comes in one easy package, putting [...]
We have added source code browsing and README parsing features to the community site. When browsing a cookbook, you will find a new tab at the top labeled “Source Code” and selecting this will allow you to review the files in the latest version of that cookbook. Now you can review a cookbook to see [...]
It has been only three months since 0.10.4 and we have another huge release for you. Once again, the Chef community has delivered. Andrea Campi of European consulting shop Zephirworks has been hard at work. He has been working on refactoring parts of the chef-server to be more modular, working toward allowing you to run [...]
InfoQ just posted a great video & presentation of Michael T. Nygard talking about using Chef in the datacenter and in the cloud for managing physical and virtual systems at GOTO Aarhus.
Bryan Barry over at the devopsanywhere blog has written a great post about Chef containing his thoughts on why you might want to start using Chef to manage your infrastructure. Bryan’s point below especially resonated with us because it articulates the fundamental change that is taking place with Chef and the cloud: The emergence of [...]
