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 [...]
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 [...]
Join our friends at Splunk next Thursday September 8th at 9am PT for a very exciting customer-led webinar courtesy of a large online electronics retailer. The webinar features a wonderful combination of Amazon Web Services, Splunk and Chef all working together to scale out a large production environment in an agile and consistent fashion. The last [...]
Our friends on the Cloud Foundry PaaS team at VMware just announced that Cloud Foundry now works across multiple cloud providers and is fully deployed and configured with Chef!
Opscode is coming to the Bay Area next week for .conf 2011, the 2nd annual Splunk users conference. We’ve done some exciting work with our friends at Splunk over the last few months and look forward to showing it off. The event runs from Monday the 15th through Wednesday the 17th at the Westin St. [...]
Earlier this morning at OSCON, our friends at Dell launched an exciting new offering, the Dell OpenStack Cloud Solution. Dell’s new offering includes a reference architecture based on Dell PowerEdge C Series servers and incorporates the Crowbar software framework (with Chef built in!) for the deployment and management of OpenStack clouds. At Opscode, we’re excited [...]
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 [...]
At Opscode, we often talk about the benefits that result from building a ‘fully automated infrastructure’. When systems engineers and developers combine datacenter-level APIs to provision new servers with configuration management tools like Chef to make those new servers do useful things, the results are often amazing. Time and money are saved Disasters are averted [...]
Enstratus is both a big supporter of Chef and one of the leading Cloud Management companies. As such, we were delighted to see the recent work they have done providing Chef integration as part of the newest Enstratus release. With Enstratus’ new integration, joint customers can… Easily configure a connection to an Opscode (or Chef [...]
