We have another epic Chef release ready for you with over 120 closed tickets. The default bootstrap template for knife has changed in this release. If you haven’t been specifying a template with the “-d” flag, you’ve been using the “ubuntu10.04-gems” template. As of this release you will need to specify this template with “-d [...]
The next release of Ohai is upon us and includes the new platform_family attribute as well as Oracle Linux support. Cookbook authors are often writing cookbooks that support both Debian based Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu, and Redhat based Linux distributions, such as CentOS. Often these cookbooks will work fine on other derivatives if only [...]
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 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 [...]
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 to the code that sets ipaddress. We found that the newest version of systemu was [...]
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 returning platform as ‘redhatenterpriseserver’. Thanks for that speedy work Bryan, you are this releases MVP! [...]
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. An issue was resolved where reading data from the Etc module wouldn’t maintain the encoding, [...]
We’re excited to reach another Opscode Chef release, this time with over 85 resolved bugs. The gems are in the usual place. We’re also happy that this time the Debian/Ubuntu packages are available upon release. Head over to the installation page on the community wiki if you’re not familiar with these steps. Red Hat Linux [...]
Chef 0.10.2 and 0.9.18 have been released on RubyGems. This is a critical security update to Chef Server and it is recommended that all open-source Chef Server users upgrade as soon as possible. Users of Opscode’s Hosted Chef and Private Chef are not affected. For those unable to upgrade the patch is available on GitHub. [...]
After a lengthy testing process, we're very proud to announce that Chef 0.10.0 is officially released. Chef 0.10 is a huge step forward, improving many aspects of the Chef experience. We've already previewed many of the new features in this release: Environments Knife Plugins and User Interface Encrypted Data Bag Items chefignore In addition to [...]
