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, [...]
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 [...]
Opscode is pleased to announce we will be sponsoring the Enterprise Cloud Summit & exhibiting during the InterOp Expo at the Javits Center in New York City. Our Senior Technical Evangelist, Sean O’Meara, will take the stage during the Summit (October 3rd @ 4:10) to provide attendees with a quick introduction to Chef. Sean will also be [...]
In May we formed an internal group for open source ticket triage. It was populated with Opscode employees who had different backgrounds and roles but one thing in common: they volunteered to participate because they loved open source. In about 20 meetings, we have triaged over 325 tickets! With the increase of contributions, our irregular [...]
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.
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. [...]