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Announcing Mitch Hill as new CEO of Opscode & Jesse Robbins’ role as Chief Community Officer
Some history… In June of 2008, Adam Jacob, Barry Steinglass, Nathan Haneysmith, and I set out to (as Nathan put it) “Bring Infrastructure Automation to the Masses”. We were building what we believed could become the central configuration utility for the world’s infrastructure.
Read moreDell OpenStack Cloud Solution
By Bryan Hale
Earlier this morning at OSCON, our friends at Dell launched an exciting new offering, the Dell OpenStack Cloud Solution. Dell’s new offering includes a reference architecture based on Dell PowerEdge C Series servers and incorporates the Crowbar software framework (with Chef built in!) for the deployment and management of OpenStack clouds.
Read moreChef 0.10.2 and 0.9.18 released!
Chef 0.10.2 and 0.9.18 have been released on RubyGems. This is a critical security update to Chef Server and it is recommended that all open-source Chef Server users upgrade as soon as possible. Users of Opscode’s Hosted Chef and Private Chef are not affected. For those unable to upgrade the patch is available on GitHub.
Read moreChef Whips Up a Mediawiki LAMP Stack for You!
Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP, slathered with a rich load-balanced layer of Mediawiki on top… Mmmm yum, comfort food. Using our most excellent application and database cookbooks from the Quickstart series we build a 4-course, data-driven, LAMP Stack meal. We’ve written it up and screencast a walk-through to help you learn Chef.
Read moreEnstratus Extends Cloud Management With Opscode Chef Integration
By Bryan Hale
Enstratus is both a big supporter of Chef and one of the leading Cloud Management companies. As such, we were delighted to see the recent work they have done providing Chef integration as part of the newest Enstratus release.
Read moreDeploy Django CMS with Chef
Calling all Pythonistas! Would you like to deploy Django apps with Chef? Then check out the latest in our Quickstart series, where we give you full instructions and an accompanying video on standing up a Django CMS multi-node instance in Amazon E2, with a load balanced app tier and separate MySQL server.
Read moreChef 0.10.0 Released!
By Dan DeLeo
After a lengthy testing process, we’re very proud to announce that Chef 0.10.0 is officially released. Chef 0.10 is a huge step forward, improving many aspects of the Chef experience.
Read moreOhai 0.6.4 released
We have a maintenance release of Ohai for you today. Josh Pasqualetto found a regression in the EC2 plugin that was preventing nested data from being collected and provided the important fix. That makes him the MVP for this release! Thanks for getting right on that Josh.
Read moreChef 0.9.16 and Ohai 0.6.2 Debian packages available
Deb packages for Chef 0.9.16 and Ohai 0.6.2, as well as the necessary dependencies that are not included in the distributions, have been uploaded to the Debian repository on apt.opscode.com. Instructions regarding how to use this repository can be found on the wiki. This update provides packages for the distribution releases listed below.
Read moreChef 0.9.16 Released!
By Dan DeLeo
While we’re full steam ahead on Chef 0.10 here at Opscode, we know that upgrading a critical component of your infrastructure can take time. For that reason, we’re releasing some updates to Chef 0.9 to keep you running smoothly on 0.9 until you can upgrade.
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