Author:
Bryan Hale
Former Chef Employee
Opscode, Dell, and Rackspace Are Making Crowbar Even More Awesome
By Bryan Hale
Since the very beginning of this year, Opscode has been working with two other OpenStack pioneers, Rackspace and Dell, to make the process of building and deploying OpenStack as easy and consistent as possible. From those efforts emerged Crowbar, an open source “datacenter installer” released by Dell just a few months ago.
Read moreSplunk Webinar: Monitoring AWS with Splunk and Automating with Chef
By Bryan Hale
Join our friends at Splunk next Thursday September 8th at 9am PT for a very exciting customer-led webinar courtesy of a large online electronics retailer. The webinar features a wonderful combination of Amazon Web Services, Splunk and Chef all working together to scale out a large production environment in an agile and consistent fashion.
Read moreOpscode at Splunk’s Worldwide User Conference
By Bryan Hale
Opscode is coming to the Bay Area next week for .conf 2011, the 2nd annual Splunk users conference. We’ve done some exciting work with our friends at Splunk over the last few months and look forward to showing it off. The event runs from Monday the 15th through Wednesday the 17th at the Westin St.
Read moreDell OpenStack Cloud Solution
By Bryan Hale
Earlier this morning at OSCON, our friends at Dell launched an exciting new offering, the Dell OpenStack Cloud Solution. Dell’s new offering includes a reference architecture based on Dell PowerEdge C Series servers and incorporates the Crowbar software framework (with Chef built in!) for the deployment and management of OpenStack clouds.
Read moreAre you an F5 Customer? Learn How to Automate LTM With Chef!
By Bryan Hale
George Watkins, Jeff Browning and some of our other neighbors on the F5 team have been doing some exciting work with using Chef to configure Local Traffic Manager (LTM) products via the iControl API.
Read moreOpscode & Eucalyptus Build Automated Private Cloud Infrastructure
By Bryan Hale
At Opscode, we often talk about the benefits that result from building a ‘fully automated infrastructure’. When systems engineers and developers combine datacenter-level APIs to provision new servers with configuration management tools like Chef to make those new servers do useful things, the results are often amazing.
Read moreEnstratus Extends Cloud Management With Opscode Chef Integration
By Bryan Hale
Enstratus is both a big supporter of Chef and one of the leading Cloud Management companies. As such, we were delighted to see the recent work they have done providing Chef integration as part of the newest Enstratus release.
Read moreCycle Computing: Why Baking Your Cluster AMI Limits the Menu
By Bryan Hale
The following is a post from the folks at Cycle Computing, who are doing some mind-blowing work with Chef in HPC environments on Amazon Web Services. They were kind enough to let us cross post it here on the Opscode blog.
Read moreApril 26th Bay Area Chef Meetup – What’s New in Chef 0.10
By Bryan Hale
Several members of the Opscode team will be at the Bay Area Chef User Group Meetup on April 26th in Mountain View. In addition to general Chef Q&A and hacking, we will plan to discuss the newest version of Chef. Join us and share in the Chef 0.10 knowledge!
Read moreJaspersoft & Full360 – Cloud Business Intelligence with the Opscode Platform
By Bryan Hale
Next Wednesday April 27th at 10am PT, Jaspersoft and Full360 will be demonstrating elasticBI, Full360’s powerful and integrated business intelligence suite. ElasticBI features Jaspersoft’s BI offering running on a Vertica database. It is delivered on AWS and and built using Chef and the Opscode Platform.
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