Author:
Lucas Welch
Former Chef Employee
Cumulus = Linux OS for Networking w/Chef support
By Lucas Welch
A cool new approach to networking has emerged today as our friends at Cumulus Networks emerged from stealth-mode to unveil the first Linux OS for datacenter networking. GigaOM had this to say: “Super-stealthy startup Cumulus Networks has launched with what could be a hot property in the burgeoning world of open networking gear.
Read moreStop Shaving the Yak – Mandi Walls Kicks Off Velocity 2013
By Lucas Welch
As many of you know, Opscode has a solid presence down at Velocity 2013, and thanks to the good folks at Data Center Knowledge, we have a live report of what our first of three speakers, the awesome Mandi Walls, had to say this morning: “All three of the morning sessions were jam-packed, with literally […]
Read moreCoding Your Business in the Cloud – Insights from Message Bus and PagerDuty
By Lucas Welch
Continuing our series of #ChefTalks customer videos about the journey to becoming a coded business, this morning we published two more videos to Opscode’s YouTube Channel.
Read moreAwesome Chefs: BranchOut Manages 30 Million Users w/Hosted Chef + AWS
By Lucas Welch
If you read this blog, you’ve no doubt seen us profile what our customers are achieving with Opscode Chef. However, past posts have at times glossed over some of the coolest parts of our customers’ stories.
Read moreOpscode @Velocity Next Week
By Lucas Welch
Headed to Velocity 2013 next week? Then join Opscode and thousands of peers, friends new and old, and really smart people in learning, socializing, and sharing best practices for moving business faster in a web-driven world.
Read moreIn the News: The Phoenix Project; Current State of App Dev
By Lucas Welch
Some more interesting ‘news’ tidbits today, including: – Cool interview w/Kevin Behr, co-author of The Phoenix Project, over at Wired.com – First in a series of blogs on the current (and exciting) state of app dev from Sonatype CTO Jason van Zyl at Computerworld. Happy reading.
Read more“You just put the code in. Chef takes care of it.” – Chef + Berkshelf @Riot Games
By Lucas Welch
For the third installment of our new #ChefTalks customer video series, we interviewed Jamie Winsor, a newly minted Awesome Chef, the author of Berkshelf, and Software Engineer at Riot Games.
Read more“At some point you have to deal with reality.” – Chef for Config Mgmt @Facebook
By Lucas Welch
As most of you in the Community already know, Facebook uses Opscode Private Chef to automate configuration management for its ‘Carl Sagan big’ infrastructure. That’s very cool, but also pretty widely known. Today, we published a new angle to the story.
Read more“We have Unix engineers now happily automating Windows” – Chef + Cultural Change @Nordstrom
By Lucas Welch
Today we launched a new series of Chef testimonial videos offering varied and unique perspectives on the journey to becoming a coded business. The first of these #ChefTalks videos features Rob Cummings, infrastructure engineer at Nordstrom, discussing how to level-up change in your organization.
Read moreIn the News – Red Hat Roadmap, E-Commerce Booming
By Lucas Welch
Need some weekend reading? We recommend checking out SearchDataCenter‘s interview with Red Hat’s director of software engineering Denise Dumas, detailing roadmap plans for RHEL. Meanwhile InfoWorld looks at Red Hat’s new Software Collections 1.0, featuring new versions of Ruby and Python for RHEL.
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