Our good friends at Voxel have published a new knife plugin for provisioning and managing Voxel cloud instances. The gem is available on RubyGems and you can install it with gem install knife-voxel If you feel like digging into the code and seeing how it works, it’s all available on their GitHub page as well. […]
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Open Source Ticket Triage
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 […]
Read MoreOpscode Hosts 3-Day Chef Fundamentals Training Oct. 24-26 in Austin, TX
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. […]
Read MoreOpscode Hosts 2-Day Chef Fundamentals Training in NY, October 13 & 14
Join Opscode’s Director of Training and Services, Joshua Timberman, and Opscode Senior Technical Evangelist, Sean O’Meara in New York 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 […]
Read MoreOpscode, Dell, and Rackspace Are Making Crowbar Even More Awesome
Since the very beginning of this year, Opscode has been working with two other OpenStack pioneers, Rackspace and Dell, to make the process of building and deploying OpenStack as easy and consistent as possible. From those efforts emerged Crowbar, an open source “datacenter installer” released by Dell just a few months ago. Crowbar extends Chef […]
Read MoreOpscode 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 MoreOpscode’s First Chef Cookbook Contest!
Announcing the first official Chef cookbook contest! There are a ton of great cookbooks on the Opscode Community Site, but we know there are more out there in various states of completion. If you’ve got a cookbook you’ve been thinking of writing, or one that’s already close to done, now’s your chance to submit it and earn the gratitude […]
Read MoreCloud Foundry PaaS Everywhere with Opscode Chef!
Our friends on the Cloud Foundry PaaS team at VMware just announced that Cloud Foundry now works across multiple cloud providers and is fully deployed and configured with Chef!
Read MoreAnnouncing Mitch Hill as new CEO of Opscode & Jesse Robbins’ role as Chief Community Officer
Some history… In June of 2008, Adam Jacob, Barry Steinglass, Nathan Haneysmith, and I set out to (as Nathan put it) “Bring Infrastructure Automation to the Masses”. We were building what we believed could become the central configuration utility for the world’s infrastructure. Adam created Chef while we were still a consultancy called HJK Solutions, […]
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