In July, 2010, we announced Opscode Open Training, providing free availability to open source Chef training materials under a Creative Commons Share-alike license. To date, more than a thousand people have signed up for the materials. We have conducted several classes, both public and private. Members of the Chef Community have conducted the Fundamentals course, [...]
Unable to make the 3-Day Chef Fundamentals Training in Austin, but still thirst for training on the use of Chef? Let the Chef Wiki Guides quench your thirst! You’ll find a number of “Walkthrough Guides” that take you step by step through the installation of 6 different common server stacks including: Rails, Java, LAMP and [...]
Join Opscode Senior Technical Evangelist, Matt Ray in Austin for a three-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 class will include lecture, labs and some comprehensive case studies. [...]
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 [...]
Join Opscode’s Director of Training and Services, Joshua Timberman, at Opscode HQ 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 class will include lecture, labs and some [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I am pleased to announce that Opscode’s Chef Fundamentals open training materials have been updated to a new version. If you signed up for Open Training in the last month or so, you should have received a link to the updated materials. Highlights of the new release: Slide theme is consistent with the new web [...]
If you’re in Los Angeles on Saturday August 6, Cloudtrainings.com will be offering Quick Start Cloud Automation with Amazon EC2 and Opscode Chef. If you’ve been using Amazon’s EC2 and are new to Chef, this session promises to provide an overview of the Opscode Chef platform and give you an introduction to using and extending [...]
