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Hosted Chef Knowledge Base and Discussion Tickets
A searchable repository of documentation, guides, previous issues, and their solutions.
Opscode maintains a knowledge base of information culled from previous tickets, for customers to search and find relevant information to help answer a question or resolve a problem. Combined with product documentation and the ability to directly enter a support ticket - The Hosted Chef Help Site is a useful resource for Opscode customers.
Go to the help site
Getting-Started Guide
A step-by-step guide to using Hosted Chef.
Once you sign up, this guide will walk you through each step of getting started working with Chef. It covers system requirements and dependencies, setting up your development environment, working with cookbooks, setting up Chef clients, and configuring your servers with Chef. The Getting Started Guide will get you all setup and on your way.
Get Started!
Quickstart Walkthroughs
How-tos for creating common server stacks.
Opscode has a series of Quickstart Walkthroughs Guides, to take you through the process of setting up 5 different common server stacks, like Rails or Java. With detailed documentation and an accompanying screencast, you can go at your own pace and learn how to use Chef for your environment - all while setting up multiple server stacks you can put to use. Once you have a Hosted Chef account, and you've followed the Getting Started Guide, these subsequent guides can help you get meaningful results out of Hosted Chef fast.
Go to the Walkthrough Guides
Chef Wiki
Detailed documentation on Chef.
The ever-improving Chef Wiki is a complete documentation resource on Chef, and on how you can use the Chef systems integration framework to bring the benefits of configuration management to your entire infrastructure.
- How Chef works, and its authentication system.
- Info on each Chef component, and how it all fits together.
- Installation and configuration details.
- Guides and tips.
Go to the Chef Wiki
Opscode Blog
Information you can use.
We regularly post company announcements and details on our blog, including product release information, previews of planned new features and improvements, tips on the use of Chef, process and access related information for Opscode products and services, and announcements on conferences, events and community engagements. There's also an RSS feed of it available for subscription.
Go to the Opscode Blog