Opscode is excited to announce that we’ll be attending and sponsoring the OpenStack Design Summit and Conference this week in San Francisco, CA. OpenStack developers, operators and users will gather to discuss the future of this open source cloud platform. We will be participating in a number of events and will have a booth as [...]
Most everybody likes to win and, here at Opscode, we’re no different. That’s why we’re excited about some recent accolades we received – so much so we wanted to share the good news. First, the AlwaysOn OnDemand 100 recognized Opscode as a private company changing the game in IT. Opscode was included based on our [...]
We are excited to announce the availability of the new Opscode Knife plugin for HP Cloud Services. This plugin gives knife the ability to create, bootstrap and manage instances in HP Cloud Services Compute, currently in beta. knife hp server list This will give you a list of all servers in the currently configured HP [...]
Slides Video & the "Automate All the Things!" from Jesse Robbins' Cloud Connect Keynote.
Our friends at Citrix & the CloudStack.org open source community have just released CloudStack 3. This a significant update to the CloudStack platform, which adds support for NetScaler loadbalancers & integration with the OpenStack Swift storage system. I’m excited every time I see a a network devices get better APIs, so I think the NetScaler support is [...]
Chef is cool. Chef is community. PR is not necessarily either of those things. We get that. But enabling customers to do great things – easier, faster and better – is cool. That is what Opscode’s all about: Customer success and enabling the community. And somebody’s got to tell these stories… That’s where PR comes [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 code and seeing how it works, it’s all available on their GitHub page as well. [...]
