Hello! How are my favorite cooks? Its been a while since our last release (around twice as long as we prefer, actually,) but we make up for our tardiness with a whole heap of fabulous for you. We begin, as always, with the MVP award. It was a tight race: Chef 0.5.4 MVP Arjuna Christensen […]
Read MoreOpscode at RailsConf 2009
Opscode will be at RailsConf 2009 in Las Vegas next week, May 4-7. I will be attending in support of Edd Dumbill's Chef tutorial on Monday at 8:30am. I will also be available afterward, and throughout the conference to answer questions about Chef and using it to deploy Rails applications. Follow me on Twitter, as […]
Read MoreOpscode Announces $2.5 Million in Series A Round
OPSCODE ANNOUNCES $2.5 MILLION IN SERIES A ROUND Draper Fisher Jurvetson Leads Round in Infrastructure Automation Start-up Founded by Former Amazon.com Operations and Cloud Computing Experts SEATTLE, Wash – April 24, 2009 – Opscode, Inc., a cloud infrastructure automation company, today announced that it has closed its Series A round of $2.5 million led by […]
Read MoreChef Cookbook for Rsyslog
Log management is an area of operations that is often sorely lacking. For Linux/Unix systems, log management is much easier with a centralized syslog server. Yet many organizations don’t set one up. Oft-cited reasons are that Unix syslog is unreliable, insecure, or difficult to set up properly. However, some Linux distributions are starting to replace […]
Read MoreInfrastructure in the Cloud Era
The talk Ezra and I gave at the Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco is up on Slideshare. Highlights included our building an ad-hoc cloud via Nanite, laptops quoting Wargames, and more than one mention of Ponies, Unicorns, and Meatclouds. Thanks to everyone who came, to Ezra for being a rocking-co-speaker, and to the members of […]
Read MoreOpscode at Web 2.0 Expo SF 2009
Opscode will be out in force at Web 2.0 Expo this week in San Francisco. Thursday morning at 10:30am I'll be on a panel discussing Cloud Operations. Then, Thursday afternoon at 2:40pm, our CTO, Adam Jacob, will be presenting with Ezra Zygmuntowicz on Automated Cloud Infrastructure. Our CEO, Jesse Robbins, will also be in attendance. […]
Read MoreWeb Applications Are a Breeze with Chef
Just about everyone who works at Opscode comes from a heavy web operations background. Those who work in webops know that getting an Apache server configured and ready to run applications with various languages and frameworks can be a difficult task. Not only do we have a plethora of languages to choose from, there's a […]
Read MoreOpscode hosting Seattle.rb this Tuesday at Zeitgeist
Opscode will be hosting the Seattle Ruby Brigade's hack night next week, at Zeitgeist Coffee in Pioneer Square. Come on down to meet us and hang out with fellow ruby aficionados. Where: Zeitgeist Coffee When: March 17, 7-9pm We'll have free drinks available until we run out of them, and we'll have the place to ourselves. […]
Read MoreOhai 0.2.0
Ohai, we prepared a new release for you! The Ohai 0.2.0 MVP is Thom May. Thom checked out Ohai, and immediately wrote a Python Language Plugin. He then just kept on fixing bugs – he made tests better, he fixed an exception caused when systems didn’t have a fully qualified domain name, and he patched […]
Read MoreChef 0.5.6
Look at what the Chef community has cooked up for you – a brand new release! The Chef 0.5.6 release MVP is Sean Cribbs, of Radiant CMS fame. Sean has been a steady presence in the burgeoning Chef community – asking questions, filing bugs, and contributing patches. In this release he whipped up a particularly […]
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