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Brightest Minds In DevOps To Speak At #ChefConf 2014
By Lucas Welch
Change Agents from GE Capital, InterContinental Hotels Group, Target, and Yahoo Join DevOps Luminaries Rachel Chalmers, Jez Humble, Adam Jacob, and Gene Kim to Address the Chef Community Conference to Feature More Than 55 Presentations on DevOps Best Practices, Continuous Delivery, and Chef Skills BMC Software, Citrix, Google, IBM, Rackspace, and VMware Among Leading Technology […]
Read moreEvolution of Cookbook Development
In this post, I will explore some development patterns that I’ve seen (and done!) with Chef cookbooks, and then explain how we can evolve to a new level of cookbook development. The examples here come from Chef’s new chef-splunk cookbook, which is a refactored version of an old splunk42 cookbook.
Read moreChef Treks through Europe Pt. III (CfgMgmtCamp & Infrastructure.Next)
By Lucas Welch
Continuing our adventures through Europe, we’re rolling into Gent, Belgium for CfgMgmtCamp, Feb. 3-4. Chef’s founder and creator Adam Jacob is keynoting at Noon CET on Feb.
Read moreChef Treks through Europe Pt. II (FOSDEM & CfgMgmtCamp)
By Lucas Welch
Last week we kicked off our “travel diary” detailing the European adventures of our stateside Chefs joining our European team for some awesome events. After hanging at the London Cloud Summit today, we’ve got lots more to see and do. Tomorrow, Jan. 30, you can attend our 2-Day #learnchef training in Amsterdam.
Read moreChef’s Splunk Cookbook
Today I’d like to share a cookbook that we’ve developed, chef-splunk. This cookbook replaces an old internal Splunk cookbook that has served us well for quite some time, but that one was becoming more difficult to modify and extend. There is a community splunk cookbook already.
Read moreChef Treks Through Europe Pt. I (London Cloud Summit)
By Lucas Welch
As you all know, we already have a humming operation in Europe. Now, many of our stateside Chefs are about to embark on a true European adventure, beginning with the London Cloud Summit (LCS) on January 29th.
Read moreAwesome Community Chef: Eric Wolfe – “Game to Cook (w/Chef, Linux, Pork, Beef…)”
By Lucas Welch
Eric Wolfe received a Commodore 128 computer when he was just five years old and quickly became fascinated with playing games on this new machine. The joys of tinkering with that old Commodore took him through the next decade.
Read moreNew Video: DevOp w/Chef’s Nathen Harvey
By Lucas Welch
Our own Nathen Harvey recently created a rockin’ and rappin’ (litterally) video presentation on what DevOps is – and is not – called “DevOps with Me!”. We could write a whole bunch of words about how unique and creative Nathen’s comparisons are here, but we’ll let you be the judge.
Read moreAwesome Community Chef: Jon Cowie – “(Knife) Sporking Awesomeness”
By Lucas Welch
Computers have fascinated Jon Cowie since he was little. So much so, that he dreamed of being a developer from an early age after encountering BASIC in old Atari magazines. He pursued this dream all the way through university, where he attained a computer science degree in 2005. Then, something happened.
Read moreUpgrading Chef using Chef
By Tom Duffield
One of our goals here at Chef (née Opscode) is to make installing Chef on a new node as easy as possible so that you can start enjoying the benefits of automation with minimal delay. But what happens to nodes that stick around for extended periods of time?
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