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Matt Ray
Matt is Chef's Manager/Solutions Architect for APAC. Currently based in Sydney, Australia. He's been with Chef for 6 years in a wide variety of roles including Director of Partner Integration most recently.
Chef at DevOpsDays Sydney
By Matt Ray
DevOpsDays Sydney was a great two-day event in downtown Sydney, Australia December 1st and 2nd. If you haven’t been to a DevOpsDay event in your area, you owe it to yourself to check it out. The “un-conference” format of opening keynotes with open spaces for attendee-driven conversations makes each one unique.
Read moreHabitat and Amazon Elastic Container Service
By Matt Ray
I was fortunate to present to the AWS Sydney North User Group on the topic “Build Better Containers for ECS with Habitat” (slides here). Since I was new to using Habitat and Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) I documented my findings.
Read moreChef at Google’s GCP NEXT
By Matt Ray
Chef and Google Compute Platform (GCP) make a great team. Chef’s automation platform gives you the power and flexibility to implement any DevOps workflow. Google provides massive scale for your high-speed, sophisticated infrastructure. Come join us at Google’s GCP NEXT 16 event this week to talk about running on GCP with Chef.
Read moreChef at the 2015 Red Hat Summit
By Matt Ray
Please join Chef this week in Boston at the 2015 Red Hat Summit! This is your chance to learn more about Red Hat’s plans for not just Red Hat Enterprise Linux but the many other open source products they work on and provide.
Read moreIBM InterConnect and Chef
By Matt Ray
This week our friends at IBM are hosting their InterConnect 2015 conference and we’re pleased to announce expanding (and existing) support for a wide variety of their products. IBM is synonymous with the Enterprise and they have embraced Chef in a big way.
Read moreChef & VMware Integration
By Matt Ray
VMware joined us at #ChefConf 2014 as a Gold sponsor and speaker. We’re working with VMware to jointly improve our offering as showcased at ChefConf. VMware’s vCloud Application Director (vCAD) lets you build deployment blueprints with a drag and drop interface for vCloud Automation Center (vCAC).
Read moreChef for OpenStack in Boston and NYC
By Matt Ray
What better way to start 2013 than getting involved with Chef for OpenStack in Boston and New York City?
Read moreChef for OpenStack
By Matt Ray
UPDATE: You can learn more about our work w/Intel in a blog post from Billy Cox. Opscode is pleased to announce the launch of our Chef for OpenStack project, a reference deployment for building and managing OpenStack clouds.
Read moreOpscode at the OpenStack Design Summit & Conference
By Matt Ray
Opscode is excited to announce that we’ll be attending and sponsoring the OpenStack Design Summit and Conference this week in San Francisco, CA. OpenStack developers, operators and users will gather to discuss the future of this open source cloud platform.
Read moreWorking with Knife and HP Cloud Services
By Matt Ray
We are excited to announce the availability of the new Opscode Knife plugin for HP Cloud Services. This plugin gives knife the ability to create, bootstrap and manage instances in HP Cloud Services Compute, currently in beta.
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