Chef 0.10 Preview: Knife Plugins knife began as a simple thor script created by Joshua Sierles of 37signals. As soon as we saw it, we knew it was such a great idea that we had to incorporate it into Chef. With a bit of a redesign, Chef 0.8 shipped with knife fully integrated, and it’s […]
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Chef 0.10 Preview: Environments
Chef 0.10 recently hit the release candidate phase of the release process, so I’d like to give you all a preview of the new features in Chef while we’re finalizing the code. The biggest new feature in Chef 0.10 is environment support, so we’ll start there. If you’d like to play along at home, you’ll […]
Read MoreApril 26th Bay Area Chef Meetup – What’s New in Chef 0.10
Several members of the Opscode team will be at the Bay Area Chef User Group Meetup on April 26th in Mountain View. In addition to general Chef Q&A and hacking, we will plan to discuss the newest version of Chef. Join us and share in the Chef 0.10 knowledge! As is tradition, the good folks […]
Read MoreChef 0.9.16 and Ohai 0.6.2 Debian packages available
Deb packages for Chef 0.9.16 and Ohai 0.6.2, as well as the necessary dependencies that are not included in the distributions, have been uploaded to the Debian repository on apt.opscode.com. Instructions regarding how to use this repository can be found on the wiki. This update provides packages for the distribution releases listed below. Our packaging […]
Read MoreChef 0.9.16 Released!
While we’re full steam ahead on Chef 0.10 here at Opscode, we know that upgrading a critical component of your infrastructure can take time. For that reason, we’re releasing some updates to Chef 0.9 to keep you running smoothly on 0.9 until you can upgrade. The primary feature of this release is the ability to […]
Read MoreOhai 0.6.2 Bugfix Release
Yesterday’s Ohai release had a critical windows bug that slipped through our beta testing. We’ve released Ohai 0.6.2 with a fix for this issue. Special thanks to Doug MacEachern for finding and patching this issue. Ohai 0.6.2 also contains a fix to set a read timeout when querying EC2’s metadata servers. You can install the […]
Read MoreOhai 0.6.0 Released!
It’s been a long time coming, so we are pleased to announce that Ohai 0.6.0 is released, including more than 40 bug fixes and improvements. Before getting into the details, I’d like to congratulate this release’s MVP, Kurt Yoder. Kurt really got our Solaris support into shape this release, adding smbios, filesystem, and virtualization support, […]
Read MoreBoulder Chef Hack Day
Following the success of our recent Chef Hack Day in Austin, Texas, on Saturday April 30 we will have the first Denver/Boulder area hack day! Opscode will be in attendance with members of the developer and services teams. What: Spend a Saturday hacking on Chef itself, or on your cookbooks. The idea behind the hack […]
Read MoreOpscode at the Texas Linux Fest
The Texas Linux Fest is in Austin this Saturday April 2! This is the second year for this Linux and Open Source conference and it looks like it’s going to be a great show. As a sponsor of the conference, we’ll be manning our booth and if you’re there please drop in and we can […]
Read MoreCloudspace Blog: Setting up development environments using Vagrant and the Opscode Platform
From our friends at Cloudspace, a great blog post on using the Opscode Platform and Vagrant to efficiently set up development environments. If you’re a developer that wants to be able to test without having to deploy to a remote server, or if you work with different projects that have different configurations, check out the Cloudspace Screencast on how […]
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