We just returned from an extremely successful foray into Bio-IT World’s Cloud Computing Conference in La Jolla, Calif., where we were honored to present some of Opscode’s contributions to the world of cloud computing. The most exciting news was Cycle Computing’s announcement of the successful deployment of a 30,000-node cluster in the cloud, the first […]
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Opscode Hosts Seattle Area Hack Day, September 24th
Join us on September 24th at the Opscode mothership for our very first Hack Day in Seattle! Meet with the Opscode team & other members of our community, hack on Chef & your own infrastructure projects, eat good food, drink beer, attempt to beat the Opscode team at Foosball. Bring your Chef & general infrastructure projects, […]
Read MoreOpscode Hosts 2 Day Chef Fundamentals Training September 22 & 23
Join Opscode’s Director of Training and Services, Joshua Timberman, at Opscode HQ for a two-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 […]
Read MoreDell OpenStack Cloud Solution
Earlier this morning at OSCON, our friends at Dell launched an exciting new offering, the Dell OpenStack Cloud Solution. Dell’s new offering includes a reference architecture based on Dell PowerEdge C Series servers and incorporates the Crowbar software framework (with Chef built in!) for the deployment and management of OpenStack clouds. At Opscode, we’re excited […]
Read MoreJesse Robbins interview “On the Money”: Opscode, DevOps, & more (transcript)
A few weeks ago I was invited to appear on Mike Adams’ “On The Money”, a business radio show on KKNW 1150. It was a fun conversation. A transcript of my segment is below: Mike Adams: Welcome back to “On the Money.” You’re listening to Mike Adams of Adams Financial Concepts. I’m here with you Friday afternoons […]
Read MoreOpscode & Eucalyptus Build Automated Private Cloud Infrastructure
At Opscode, we often talk about the benefits that result from building a ‘fully automated infrastructure’. When systems engineers and developers combine datacenter-level APIs to provision new servers with configuration management tools like Chef to make those new servers do useful things, the results are often amazing. Time and money are saved Disasters are averted […]
Read MoreCycle Computing: Why Baking Your Cluster AMI Limits the Menu
The following is a post from the folks at Cycle Computing, who are doing some mind-blowing work with Chef in HPC environments on Amazon Web Services. They were kind enough to let us cross post it here on the Opscode blog. Why Baking Your Cluster AMI Limits the Menu: DevOps for HPC clusters You may […]
Read MoreOpscode at SCALE 9x!
The Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) is this weekend and Opscode is excited to be there at a number of events associated with it. Friday is the DevOps Day Los Angeles and our very own John Willis and Adam Jacob will be there. John will be kicking the day off with an Introduction to DevOps […]
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