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Webinar: Electric Cloud and Opscode Chef – The PB&J of DevOps

Last month at the Electric Cloud user summit, Opscode and Electric Cloud jointly demonstrated an integration between Chef and Electric Deploy. One month later, we have been very pleased with the initial feedback and are ready to publicly showcase the

Introducing the new Opscode Documentation site

Introducing docs.opscode.com! We have created a new documentation website, which will become the new home for all of the documentation about Chef. The initial effort has focused around migrating the most accessed and valuable sections first. The next phases will

Hosted Chef Degraded Performance Post Mortem

On Friday, October 26th between 1228 and 2046 UTC, Opscode Hosted Chef was in a degraded state with significantly reduced throughput and a high rate of timeout errors for API requests. We deeply regret this inconvenience to our customers, and

Chef + Cloudscaling OCS 2.0 = Automated, Elastic Cloud

This week at the OpenStack Summit, our friends at Cloudscaling released Version 2.0 of their Open Cloud System (OCS), delivering the agility, performance and economic benefits of the public cloud, but deployable in your data center and under your IT

All You Wanted to Know About Continuous Delivery (Almost): Webinar + Whitepaper

We’re seeing a large number of Chef users, whether open source, Hosted or Private, deploying, or beginning to investigate, continuous application delivery. Continuous delivery follows the path set out by agile development with the goal of accelerating time-to-market, while reducing

Using Chef to Add New Relic Server Monitoring

So easy, even a bizdev guy can do it! You’ll often hear Chef users rave about the consistency Chef brings to the configuration of their systems, or how it increases the speed and quality of deployments. That’s all fine and

Community-authored Plugin: Knife Community Release

Here at Opscode, we release a lot of cookbooks to the Chef Community site. Each individual cookbook is a separate software development project: they all have a git repository, a released “artifact” version, and as we extend cookbooks for test

Upcoming Webinar on Sept 19th with 10gen and Gazzang

We are participating in a webinar with our partners 10gen and Gazzang to talk about quickly spinning up secure versions of MongoDB using Opscode Chef and Gazzang zNcrypt. In this webinar, we’ll explore the real-life use case of a non-profit

Chef in Action @LAN.com

A few of you may have seen the news a couple months back that LAN, a leading Latin American airline, is using Opscode Hosted Chef to configure, manage and automate its data center supporting operations for LAN.com. What you haven’t

Join us in Los Angeles at the OpenStack & DevOps Meetups August 21st

Join us in the offices of Dreamhost for two great Chef events. That day is OpenStack LA with Opscode’s Senior Technical Evangelist Matt Ray at the Chef OpenStack Cookbooks Hack Day. Later that night is the LA DevOps Meetup with

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