I wanted smartmontools installed to monitor the disk health of my LAN server at home. This is not an uncommon thing to want to do, so I thought I’d write and share a Chef cookbook for it. I also took this opportunity to write up the experience so I can illustrate how easy it is […]
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Chef Fundamentals Open Training Update
I am pleased to announce that Opscode’s Chef Fundamentals open training materials have been updated to a new version. If you signed up for Open Training in the last month or so, you should have received a link to the updated materials. Highlights of the new release: Slide theme is consistent with the new web […]
Read MoreCloudtrainings.com Chef & Amazon EC2 training
If you’re in Los Angeles on Saturday August 6, Cloudtrainings.com will be offering Quick Start Cloud Automation with Amazon EC2 and Opscode Chef. If you’ve been using Amazon’s EC2 and are new to Chef, this session promises to provide an overview of the Opscode Chef platform and give you an introduction to using and extending […]
Read MoreUpdate on the Future of Opscode’s Cookbooks
This is an update on the blog post we made a couple weeks back regarding the future of Opscode’s cookbooks and cookbooks repository. We are going to switch master branch to reflect the changes that have been made in the 0.10.0 branch this week. Aside from removal of a number of cookbooks (which has been […]
Read MoreDeploy Django CMS with Chef
Calling all Pythonistas! Would you like to deploy Django apps with Chef? Then check out the latest in our Quickstart series, where we give you full instructions and an accompanying video on standing up a Django CMS multi-node instance in Amazon E2, with a load balanced app tier and separate MySQL server. Especially for folks […]
Read MoreFuture of Opscode Cookbooks
We’re making changes to the Opscode cookbooks repository about what cookbooks we include and how we provide support for them. As a large number of people rely on our cookbooks, we want to be clear about the intentions of the repository, and how we plan to release and support cookbooks going forward. The cookbooks in […]
Read MoreChef 0.10.0 Released!
After a lengthy testing process, we’re very proud to announce that Chef 0.10.0 is officially released. Chef 0.10 is a huge step forward, improving many aspects of the Chef experience. We’ve already previewed many of the new features in this release: Environments Knife Plugins and User Interface Encrypted Data Bag Items chefignore In addition to […]
Read MoreChef 0.10 Preview: Encrypted Data Bags
Chef 0.10 Preview: Encrypted Data Bags Many server roles, such as databases, require setting up passwords as part of their configuration. A common pattern is to put such passwords in a data bag stored on the Chef server. Recipes can then access the data bag to automate the configuration. A downside of this approach is […]
Read MoreChef 0.10 Preview: chefignore
Here’s the issue: we love our text editors and version control systems, but, despite all the indespensible things these tools do for us, they sometimes leave behind temporary or data files that we don’t want to distribute to every host in our infrastructure. Before Chef 0.10, it was a pain to keep knife from uploading […]
Read MoreSeattle Chef Users Meeting: Wednesday May 11
Hello Chefs! Once again, the folks at White Pages will host a Seattle area Chef users meetup, and we’d love to see you there! Opscode will be in attendance, and will also present a tour of features in the highly anticipated Chef 0.10 release. Pizza and beverages will be provided by Opscode. When: Wednesday, May […]
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