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Opscode @IBM Innovate
By Lucas Welch
Are you headed to Orlando for IBM Innovate next week? If so, be sure to check out Opscode’s VP of Solutions, George Moberly, at the event spreading the good word on Chef.
Read moreIn the News – Cloud Mgmt & More
By Lucas Welch
In hopes of helping all of you in the Community stay up-to-date on what tech press are providing in terms of news, opinions, and best practices from end-users, this post marks the first in an ongoing series of ‘news round-ups’ we’ll be posting every couple weeks here at Opscode’s blog.
Read moreIndiegogo crowd-funds projects around the world w/Chef
By Lucas Welch
From raising money for those impacted by the tornado in Oklahoma, to helping people fight cancer, Indiegogo crowd-funds important, even life-changing projects the world over. To do so, the company uses Rackspace to power a flexible, scalable cloud infrastructure behind all the awesome projects and site traffic.
Read moreJust Released – Update to Knife Plugin for Google Compute Engine
By Bryan Hale
The folks at Google have just published a major update to “knife-google” plugin for Google Compute Engine. Included in this update is a removal of the “gcutil” tookit as an external dependency, meaning that knife-google users can talk directly to the Compute Engine API to spin up new GCE instances and manage them with Chef.
Read moreReflections on #ChefConf 2013
#ChefConf 2013 was a roaring success! Our second annual conference was full of great keynotes, insightful workshops, informative track sessions, and the awesome Chef community. #ChefConf 2013 sold out with more than 700 people in attendance and hundreds more watching the live video stream of the keynote sessions.
Read more#ChefConf – Hack Day
Immediately following #ChefConf 2013, we teamed up with our friends from Joyent and Boundary to co-host a Chef Hack Day. The idea: capture some of the excitement and buzz generated at #ChefConf and bring community members together to whip up some awesome code.
Read moreAwesome Community Chefs
During #ChefConf 2013, we announced our first annual Awesome Community Chefs awards. The Chef community is full of many awesome individuals who contribute and do exceptional things every day.
Read moreCheezburger Builds Massive Social Humor Website Network w/Hosted Chef
By Lucas Welch
Coming out of a seriously rockin’ #ChefConf a week ago, it’s time to profile more customer awesomeness in the Chef Community. This go round it’s a neighbor of ours here in Seattle – Cheezburger, one of the largest social humor sites in the world.
Read moreOpscode Momentum Surges As Chef Community Unites at #ChefConf 2013
By Lucas Welch
Today from #ChefConf 2013, we made a series of exciting announcements, including collaborations with IBM (see separate blog for more info) and Microsoft, to some serious business and community growth metrics.
Read moreOpscode and IBM Join Forces to Bring Open Source Cloud Automation to the Enterprise
By Lucas Welch
This morning, we announced an exciting collaboration with our friends at IBM to bring the full power of Opscode Chef to IBM’s enterprise customers. From Opscode Chef integration with IBM SmartCloud, to new cookbooks, content and more, we’re working closely with IBM to deliver on the promise of DevOps in accelerating the speed of business.
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