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Opscode Community Summit – Remote Participation
The Opscode Community Summit kicks off this week in Seattle. The Summit is an annual gathering of community members for two days of Open Spaces discussing the topics that are most important to the people in the community. Participants share their ideas, triumphs, and challenges with Chef and other personal projects.
Read moreRelease: Chef Client 11.8.0 & Ohai 6.20.0
By Serdar Sutay
Hey Chefs, Today is an exciting day. We are announcing Chef Client 11.8.0 & Ohai 6.20.0. Here are the biggest highlights of these releases: Chef Client Local Mode Chef Client now has a local mode in which it can run 100% locally using a chef repository.
Read moreAwesome Chefs – CustomInk Unites Dev & Ops, Codes Their Business
By Lucas Welch
Our close friends at CustomInk make it easy for anyone to create customized T-shirts, sweatshirts, and much more online. (Sidenote: We work with them to make all our Opscode and Chef T-Shirts). CustomInk employs proprietary, primarily Ruby-based software applications running on both virtualized and cloud servers to manage everything from its website to its printers.
Read moreLet’s #learnchef!
Opscode and our partners have a bunch of opportunities coming up to help you #learnchef. We’ve recently announced a weekly webinar series that kicks off next Thursday. It’s free to attend so sign-up and put it on your calendar today. We also have a number of instructor-led classes coming up in the next few months.
Read moreRelease: Chef Client 11.6.2 & 10.28.2
By Serdar Sutay
Hello Chefs. Today we are announcing two releases for Chef Client: Chef Client 11.6.2 Chef Client 10.28.2 The highlight of the release is the fix for CHEF-4489 reported by Jeff Blaine which prevented the creation of necessary symlinks in Solaris packages. MVP With his awesome help finding and testing the Solaris packaging issues Jeff Blaine is this release’s MVP.
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 moreCommunity, Bacon, and Giving Back
We’re only about a month away from this year’s Opscode Community Summit. The Opscode Community Summit is a unique opportunity for open-source contributors, Opscode engineers, and Chef users of all experience levels to come together and share their passion and excitement for Chef. The Opscode Community Summit is a facilitated Open Space event.
Read moreRegister for the Free Chef Fundamentals Training Webinar Series
By Brian Taylor
Are you ready to #learnchef? We’re launching a free weekly webinar series aimed at guiding you down the learning path for Chef. Join us next Thursday for the first webinar in the series. This series aims to prepare key development, engineering, and operations staff to use Chef to write infrastructure.
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 moremixlib-config 2.0
By John Keiser
mixlib-config is getting an update! We use mixlib-config in Chef to drive the knife.rb and client.rb files (as well as Omnibus config). For a quick overview, to use mixlib-config in your project, you do something like this: [sourcecode language=”ruby”] require ‘mixlib/config’ module MyConfig extend Mixlib::Config default :log_level, ‘debug’ default :max_files, 10 end MyConfig.from_file(‘~/myconfig.
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