Author:
Lucas Welch
Former Chef Employee
Podcast: An Application-Centric Approach to DevOps using Cloudify + Chef on Cloudstack
By Lucas Welch
Next Wednesday, Oct. 30, at 10 am Pacific Time, we’ve joined with our friends at PaddyPower, Cloudify, and CloudStack to host a sweet podcast addressing common obstacles in the journey to DevOps.
Read moreVelocity Greatest Hits Part II – Adam Jacob’s “Choose Your Own Adventure”
By Lucas Welch
In part II of our “Velocity Greatest Hits” blog series leading up to next week’s Velocity NYC, we dive into the mind of Adam Jacob and his famed “Choose Your Own Adventure” talk. Driven by audience interaction and questions, Adam’s “Choose Your Won Adventure” can obviously take a number of different directions.
Read moreVelocity Greatest Hits – Making DevOps a Science
By Lucas Welch
As many of you know, next week is Velocity NYC, where you can find a bunch of the Opscode gang at booth #24 talking about how “code can,” and other cool musings. Leading up to next week’s conference, we thought it’d be cool to revisit some of our greatest hits from Velocity’s years past.
Read moreAwesome Chefs – Encyclopedia Life Uses Chef for Global DevOps
By Lucas Welch
Our friends at the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) began their mission with this idea – humans’ knowledge of the many life-forms on Earth (of animals, plants, fungi, protists and bacteria) is scattered around the world in books, journals, databases, websites, specimen collections, and in the minds of people everywhere.
Read moreAwesome Community Chefs: Miah Johnson – Game for Cookbooking Awesome
By Lucas Welch
The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment (The MADE) in Oakland, CA is a one-of-a-kind place offering gamers of all shapes and sizes and opportunity to relive the milestones of gaming history and participate in epic tournaments, while kids can learn programming for free and get initiated into gaming culture.
Read morePrezi Talks DevOps @GigaOM Structure Europe
By Lucas Welch
Many of you out there in the Chef Community are likely using Prezi’s dynamite zooming presentation software. Prezi, in turn, is using Enterprise Chef to manage a big gang of AWS resources that serve its nearly 20M users. Cool, yes, but nothing we haven’t said before.
Read moreAwesome Community Chef: Fletcher Nichol – “Drumming Up Test Kitchen”
By Lucas Welch
One could argue there are major similarities between bands and open source communities, especially a community built around code.
Read moreWhipping Up Awesome w/Chef + AWS
By Lucas Welch
For all you Chefs in the London area, Opscode will be taking part in the AWS Enterprise Summit at the Grange St. Paul’s Hotel tomorrow, Sept. 17, from 8 am – 6 pm. This event is designed for senior technical leaders within enterprise organizations who are looking to learn more about AWS.
Read moreChef Meet-up on 9/17: Whipping Up Awesome w/Berkshelf
By Lucas Welch
Next Tues., 9/17, @6:30 pm, we have a very special Chef Meet Up happening in Seattle here at Opscode HQ. We’re honored to have Awesome Chef Jamie Winsor joining us to talk about Berkshelf 3.0, including bug fixes, speed improvements, and usability tweaks to the foundations that Berkshelf 1.0 and 2.0 have laid.
Read moreAutomating the Network w/Chef + Plexxi – Demo on 9/13
By Lucas Welch
Today, our friends at Plexxi, who created the networking industry’s first affinity-driven networking solution, today announced they’ve integrated their SDN-based switching solution with Opscode Enterprise Chef™, making it easier to set up servers and deploy applications in the data center.
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