We have deployed a new search API, dubbed /partial search/, to Opscode Hosted Chef. The partial search API is designed to reduce the amount of memory and the network bandwidth required by chef-client to process search results. You can start experimenting with partial search in your Hosted Chef organization by downloading the [partial search cookbook][] […]
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The Debug Files: Bookshelf and the Broken Transfer Encoding
What follows is the story of a bug we encountered during development of what will become the Chef 11 API server. The story unfolds as we began to integrate and test Bookshelf, a new component that handles cookbook file storage. Bookshelf exposes a REST API that behaves just enough like the AWS S3 API to […]
Read MoreAnnouncing Test Kitchen
Testing Chef cookbooks and infrastructure development is a hot topic these days. One of the keynote talks at ChefConf was Test-driven Development for Chef Practitioners. There’s even a book on the topic of Test Driven Infrastructure with Chef. Last month, we shared a guest blog post from Andrew Crump on testing infrastructure, and performing test-driven/behavior-driven […]
Read MoreChef for OpenStack
UPDATE: You can learn more about our work w/Intel in a blog post from Billy Cox. Opscode is pleased to announce the launch of our Chef for OpenStack project, a reference deployment for building and managing OpenStack clouds. There are already quite a few folks deploying OpenStack with Chef and we want to help make […]
Read MoreOpscode at the OpenStack Design Summit & Conference
Opscode is excited to announce that we’ll be attending and sponsoring the OpenStack Design Summit and Conference this week in San Francisco, CA. OpenStack developers, operators and users will gather to discuss the future of this open source cloud platform. We will be participating in a number of events and will have a booth as […]
Read MoreCookbooks Migrated to New GitHub Organization
Opscode’s cookbooks are no longer maintained in the monolithic “opscode/cookbooks” repository on GitHub, and are now split up into a new organization on GitHub, “opscode-cookbooks”. Why the Change? Based on feedback from you, our excellent community, the overwhelming voice is that having the cookbooks in their own separate repository will make it easier for people […]
Read MoreWorking with Knife and HP Cloud Services
We are excited to announce the availability of the new Opscode Knife plugin for HP Cloud Services. This plugin gives knife the ability to create, bootstrap and manage instances in HP Cloud Services Compute, currently in beta. knife hp server list This will give you a list of all servers in the currently configured HP […]
Read MoreJoin Opscode at SCALE!
Opscode is proud to be a sponsor of the Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) this upcoming weekend in Los Angeles. SCALE is one of the premier open source events in the United States and we encourage you to attend. We’ll be participating in a number of events, giving a presentation and we’ll have a booth […]
Read MoreFood Fight, the New Chef Community Podcast
Food Fight is a new podcast for the Chef community, discussing and summarizing the assorted news and topics of the day. It’s hosted by community member Bryan Berry and Opscode employee Matt Ray. They plan on interviewing lots of people from the greater Chef community and publishing every few weeks. The first episode is up […]
Read MoreNew knife plugin for Voxel
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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