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 […]
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Cookbooks 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Opscode’s cookbooks are no longer maintained in the monolithic “opscode/cookbooks” repository on GitHub, and are now split up into a new organization on GitHub, “opscode-cookbooks”.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 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 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 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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