If you know about Opscode, you know Community really means something to us, and there’s no better way to keep our Community growing strong than by getting out there and meeting with folks face to face. This Spring we’ll be doing exactly that at a series of great shows and expos, where Opscode’s experts will [...]
Opscode loves Erlang and we’re not afraid to show it! Myself and several Opscode engineers will be attending Erlang Factory to talk about Erlang, distributed systems, web programming, and just hang out with the generally awesome Erlang community. Seth Falcon, Development Lead of the Opscode East Engineering team, will discuss porting Chef’s REST API to [...]
When you utilize cloud resources as a commodity, it can sometimes be hard to differentiate between individual systems. While testing some Chef installations on EC2 instances I asked myself, “which of these instances registered with my Chef server did I create a few hours ago?” I considered searching through nodes for attributes that ought to [...]
You may have noticed from recent posts to the mailing list, or by watching the ticket system that we have been pretty busy updating our cookbooks with community contributions and other fixes. In this post, I will explain what we have been up to, what we’re planning for the near-term, and how you, our excellent [...]
Seattle Business has selected Opscode as the “Service Provider of the Year” and we have to thank our customers for this honor! In the announcement, Seattle Business cited our work with customers, including our work with EA2D to deploy 200 servers quickly when it expected thousands of people to sign up for the new online [...]
Thanks to everyone who participated in Opscode’s first Chef Cookbook Contest! We got some great submissions, all of which are now available on the Opscode Community Site. We liked the submissions so much we decided to give everyone who participated an Opscode T-shirt. But in the end we had to choose the winners, so without [...]
Opscode is proud to be a sponsor of Seattle Beta Launch Event. Seattle Beta provides a social forum for young(er) start ups to mingle and present their wares. Twenty dollars gets you in the door for an evening of live demos and conversation. Come see what some of the new kids on the block have [...]
Just a friendly reminder that there’s only one week to go before we stop accepting cookbooks for Opscode’s first cookbook contest. Get your submissions in before the end of the month! Read more about the cookbook contest in the original blog post.
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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 [...]
