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Test Kitchen 0.7.0 Released
We have released Test Kitchen version 0.7.0. This release brings some important new features and improvements we’d like to tell you about in more detail. OpenStack Runner The first new feature is an Openstack runner. We have an OpenStack build cluster for our Jenkins jobs, and we’ve started adding cookbook’s in test kitchen to Jenkins.
Read moreMessage Bus Takes Email to the Cloud with Opscode
By Lucas Welch
More customer goodness today: Our friends at Message Bus, pioneers in cloud-based infrastructure for email, mobile and social messaging, are using Opscode Hosted Chef™ to automate configuration, environment and application management across the multiple cloud IaaS providers powering the company’s innovative service. What is Message Bus’s service exactly?
Read moreSplunk revs up new SaaS platform w/Hosted Chef
By Lucas Welch
Many of you in our community likely know Splunk, the innovative big data company that enables enterprise companies to collect, analyze and harness the power of their machine data. What you may not know is Splunk now offers a SaaS product designed specifically for the cloud.
Read moreTransition…
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 moreOpscode & Electric Cloud Showcase End to End DevOps Automation
By Bryan Hale
Today at the Electric Cloud Summit, Opscode is very excited to be announcing a collaboration with Electric Cloud around enterprise DevOps. In Electric Cloud, we not only see a company with an impressive user community and complementary technology, but an enthusiastic commitment to software delivery that rivals our own.
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 moreTest Kitchen 0.6.0 Released
We have released version 0.6.0 of Test Kitchen. Thanks to Eric Wolfe, this release decouples RVM, so runtimes must be specified explicitly to run integration tests. We felt that this would be the least surprising thing for the most common current use of test kitchen: testing cookbooks.
Read moreAnnouncing Test Kitchen
Testing Chef cookbooks and infrastructure development is a hot topic these days. One of the keynote talks at ChefConf was Test-driven Development for Chef Practitioners. There’s even a book on the topic of Test Driven Infrastructure with Chef.
Read moreOpscode Joins Google Cloud Platform Partner Program
By Bryan Hale
Opscode Joins Google Cloud Platform Partner Program July 24, 2012 — Opscode today announced it has joined the Google Cloud Platform Partner Program as a Technology Partner. Opscode’s Chef is the configuration and automation framework used by thousands of leading web companies and enterprises.
Read moreRule the Cloud – Now w/Google, too.
By Lucas Welch
Brass Tacks: With our announcement today of integration with Google Compute Engine, yesterday’s news on “Chef for OpenStack”, and previous integration news with Azure and HP Cloud, Opscode Chef is now playing a central role in the best practices for building, deploying and managing public and private clouds across the entire waterfront of cloud providers.
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