Chef 0.10 Preview: Knife Plugins knife began as a simple thor script created by Joshua Sierles of 37signals. As soon as we saw it, we knew it was such a great idea that we had to incorporate it into Chef. With a bit of a redesign, Chef 0.8 shipped with knife fully integrated, and it’s […]
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Chef 0.10 Preview: Environments
Chef 0.10 recently hit the release candidate phase of the release process, so I’d like to give you all a preview of the new features in Chef while we’re finalizing the code. The biggest new feature in Chef 0.10 is environment support, so we’ll start there. If you’d like to play along at home, you’ll […]
Read MoreBoulder Chef Hack Day
Following the success of our recent Chef Hack Day in Austin, Texas, on Saturday April 30 we will have the first Denver/Boulder area hack day! Opscode will be in attendance with members of the developer and services teams. What: Spend a Saturday hacking on Chef itself, or on your cookbooks. The idea behind the hack […]
Read MoreOrange County PHP and Los Angeles PHP Meetups on April 27th and 28th
We will be at the Orange County PHP and Los Angeles PHP Meetups on April 27th and 28th. See below for more info. Aaron Peterson is a long-time Systems Engineer and Administrator who has worked at scale for companies like Amazon.com and BofA. Now helping folks build fully automated infrastructure as a Technical Evangelist for […]
Read MoreOpscode at the Texas Linux Fest
The Texas Linux Fest is in Austin this Saturday April 2! This is the second year for this Linux and Open Source conference and it looks like it’s going to be a great show. As a sponsor of the conference, we’ll be manning our booth and if you’re there please drop in and we can […]
Read MoreOpscode at Mountain West RubyConf 2011
The Mountain West RubyConf is in Salt Lake City is this Thursday and Friday, March 17-18! This is a regional Ruby conference held in Salt Lake City. Opscode’s Joshua Timberman will be presenting a talk on Cookbook design patterns used by Opscode for our published cookbooks and how to make cookbooks sharable betweenenvironments and infrastructures, as well […]
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 […]
Read MoreGeekAustin DevOps Series #1
This weekend in Austin TX, Opscode Technical Evangelist Matt Ray will be participating in the GeekAustin DevOps Series #1. The GeekAustin DevOps day is a free event that will feature open source configuration management tools, including Chef. Matt will be giving an introductory Chef 101 talk, with a hands-on component and a live demonstration of deploying […]
Read MoreData Day Austin video: What Big Data Folks Need to Know About DevOps
At the recent Data Day Austin, Opscode Technical Evangelist Matt Ray gave a talk with Infochimps‘ CTO Flip Kromer on using Chef to deploy Hadoop clusters. The talk discusses DevOps and provides a quick overview of Chef, how it works and why it is important for Big Data users. Next there is a live demonstration of […]
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