A few weeks ago, we migrated the opscode/cookbooks repository to separate repositories per-cookbook in a new organization on GitHub. We have already received more than 50 pull requests! Thank you for your contributions and participation. You are all awesome. While we haven’t gotten through all the old repository’s pull requests; we’re still making progress there. [...]
Opscode’s cookbooks are no longer maintained in the monolithic “opscode/cookbooks” repository on GitHub, and are now split up into a new organization on GitHub, “opscode-cookbooks”. Why the Change? Based on feedback from you, our excellent community, the overwhelming voice is that having the cookbooks in their own separate repository will make it easier for people [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I wanted smartmontools installed to monitor the disk health of my LAN server at home. This is not an uncommon thing to want to do, so I thought I’d write and share a Chef cookbook for it. I also took this opportunity to write up the experience so I can illustrate how easy it is [...]
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 [...]
George Watkins, Jeff Browning and some of our other neighbors on the F5 team have been doing some exciting work with using Chef to configure Local Traffic Manager (LTM) products via the iControl API. In a Tech Tip published earlier today, George walks a new user through the process of using Chef to auto-populate an [...]
Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP, slathered with a rich load-balanced layer of Mediawiki on top... Mmmm yum, comfort food. Using our most excellent application and database cookbooks from the Quickstart series we build a 4-course, data-driven, LAMP Stack meal. We've written it up and screencast a walk-through to help you learn Chef. We show you [...]
