To compete in the modern economy, organizations across industries have had to develop competency in the digital domain. Customer-facing apps and digital experiences drive growth, while large scale software systems keep operations running efficiently. Enormous budgets are poured into digital transformation projects, but many succumb to the weight of complexity and the inability of siloed […]
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Inside the new AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate service
We’re excited about this morning’s announcement at AWS re:Invent unveiling the new AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate service. This service helps anyone get started quickly with Chef Automate in a low-risk low-friction way with all the benefits you’d expect from any native AWS service. This launch is the result of a tight partnership between Chef […]
Read MoreErchef Comes to Hosted Chef
I’m very happy and quite proud to announce the successful deployment of erchef on Hosted Chef this week. Getting erchef into Hosted Chef has been a long and challenging project involving a good chunk of Opscode’s engineers. Since the successful cut over to erchef, our Hosted Chef customers have seen marked reductions in API timeouts […]
Read MoreChef Server 11.0.8 Released
We are happy to announce the release of Chef Server 11.0.8 containing a number of security and bug fixes as detailed below. The MVP for this release is Joe Breu (@rackerjoe) who contributed a fix for CHEF-3889 to correct PostgreSQL tuning to allow Chef Server to be installed on systems with more than 64GB of […]
Read MoreReflections on 5 years as an Open Source company
As we head in to our second (sold out! Woohoo!) #ChefConf, I find myself getting all misty eyed, nostalgic, and reflective. My journey with Chef started with an empty terminal window and a consulting company that was having trouble scaling; from there it’s lead me to discover an entire world full of wonderful people who […]
Read MoreTurn it to 11: Upgrading From Chef 10
Editor’s Note: A previous version of this blog post recommended setting cookbook\_path to nil in the knife.rb file. That line has been removed, as it causes an error in newer version of knife/chef-client. Either do not set the cookbook\_path or do not set it to nil when following these instructions. You can find instructions on […]
Read MoreChef 11 Server: Up and Running
In this post, we’re going to look at how easy it is to get up and running with a Chef Server on a brand new Ubuntu 12.04 or CentOS 6.3 system. We’ll also explore the new Chef Server management tool, chef-server-ctl, and the new configuration file. Requirement: You should have a fully-qualified domain name set up for […]
Read MoreThe Making of Erchef, the Chef 11 Server
The Chef 11 Server provides significant improvements in terms of compute efficiency, scalability, and operability. We achieved these improvements by rewriting the API server in Erlang and switching the data store from CouchDB to PostgreSQL. This post provides a behind the scenes look at some of the engineering decisions and development approaches involved in creating […]
Read MoreChef 11 Released!
We’re incredibly proud to share the latest major release of Chef with you. The Chef Client and Chef Server are now separate projects. We will be making separate but compatible releases moving forward. You can download both of them from the Chef download page. Erchef, the Chef 11 Server The most significant new feature is […]
Read MoreChef for OpenStack in Boston and NYC
What better way to start 2013 than getting involved with Chef for OpenStack in Boston and New York City? We’ve got 3 free events and they’re all filling fast: January 22:Chef for OpenStack Hack Day – Boston January 22:Chef-BOSTON Meetup: Chef for OpenStack and Chef 11 January 24:Chef for OpenStack Hack Day – NYC Want […]
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