Author:
Jesse Robbins
Chef Co-Founder & Advisor
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In the past year our community has grown to 20,000 registered users who have downloaded Opscode Chef almost 2 million times. Chef now powers the automation of thousands of organizations which combine to reach nearly a billion people across the globe.
Read moreAnnouncing Chef for OpenStack Folsom
Chef for OpenStack provides a centralized, defined collection of code and best practices for using Chef to create and automate entire OpenStack infrastructures, as well as to launch entire application stacks on top of OpenStack clouds.
Read moreAttending Velocity and/or DevOpsDays? We’ve added a special workshop day… Sign up now!
We’ve added a special Chef Full Day Workshop on Thursday, June 28 at the Hyatt Santa Clara. This is the day after VelocityConf ends and co-incides with the first day of DevOpsDays. This Chef 101 Workshop is a hands on training class for getting familiar with Chef for performing common automation tasks.
Read moreImportant schedule information for #ChefConf Workshops & Conference Sessions
#ChefConf 2012 is just a few days away, and we are going to have a very full event! Several people have asked about the schedule for Tuesday & Friday workshops and/or if we can squeeze any more people in. We are sending this overview to help eliminate any confusion. Feel free to email chefconf@opscode.
Read moreSubmit your talks for Ignite #ChefConf!
Ignite #ChefConf is Wednesday, May 16th and YOU can speak! Ignite is a geek event in over 100 cities worldwide. At the events Ignite presenters share their personal and professional passions, using 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds for a total of just five minutes. It is super fun! Ready to submit your talk?
Read more#ChefConf early bird pricing extended to Wednesday April 4th
Several of you asked if we would could extend #ChefConf early bird pricing by a few days… so we did. ;-) You now have until Wednesday April 4th at 11:59 PM Pacific to get your tickets at the lower price.
Read moreOpscode Announces $19.5m Funding, Hiring, Community Growth, and #ChefConf
We’ve made several big announcements this morning… slightly ahead of schedule. You can read details on TechCrunch, GeekWire, DataCenterKnowledge, GigaOM, and more on Techmeme. We just raised $19,500,000! We’ve just closed $19.5M in Series C Funding, led by John Connors at Ignition Partners, along with Battery Ventures and Draper Fisher Jurvetson.
Read moreAutomate All The Things!!! – Video of Jesse Robbins’ Keynote @ Cloud Connect
Slides Video & the “Automate All the Things!” from Jesse Robbins’ Cloud Connect Keynote.
Read moreChef Support for Citrix CloudStack 3
Our friends at Citrix & the CloudStack.org open source community have just released CloudStack 3. This a significant update to the CloudStack platform, which adds support for NetScaler loadbalancers & integration with the OpenStack Swift storage system.
Read more#ChefConf 2012 – Call for Proposals
In a few days we’ll be officially announcing #ChefConf 2012, our inaugural community conference. #ChefConf will be held May 15-17th in Burlingame, California. We’re really excited about what we’re putting together. The CFP is open now!
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