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Opscode & Appfirst – Full Stack Automation Meets Full Stack Visibility
By Bryan Hale
Companies that adopt Chef across their full stack, from “bare metal” through application deployment, sometimes feel pretty darn powerful. Chef is fantastic at taking your desired infrastructure outcomes and making them happen– scale with little effort, build and rebuild infrastructure, create dev/test/prod environments etc. But how do you decide what those desired outcomes are?
Read moreCTO Christopher Brown to present at TechMesh, Dec 4th
Finding yourself in London this December? Join our CTO, Christopher Brown, at TechMesh December 4th through 6th. Christopher will be giving a talk on the use of Erlang in Webmachine for maximizing memory usage and concurrency on the server. For more information about Christopher’s presentation click here.
Read moreAutomating Continuous Deployment w/Chef
By Lucas Welch
Opscode’s own Matt Ray recently spoke at CME Group‘s 2012 Technology Conference, presenting “Automating Infrastructure and Continuous Deployment with Chef,” to financial services IT pros, developers and architects. Check it out here. It’s a clear, informative overview on how Chef works and what benefits it delivers.
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 moreUsing Chef to Add New Relic Server Monitoring
By Bryan Hale
So easy, even a bizdev guy can do it! You’ll often hear Chef users rave about the consistency Chef brings to the configuration of their systems, or how it increases the speed and quality of deployments.
Read moreGet Full Day Chef workshop at CloudOpen/LinuxCon for $75!
By Jamie Bright
There are at least three great reasons for you to join us at CloudOpen in San Diego next week. First, our very own CTO, Christopher Brown, will be a keynote speaker on Friday, August 31st. Second, we’ll be hosting our popular Chef Introductory Workshop as a Co-Located Event on Tuesday, August 28th.
Read moreGet Opscode Chef Training in Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco in August
By Jamie Bright
Opscode is hosting a series of 1-day, 100% hands on, Chef workshops all around the country over the next few months. This month, we’ll be in several locations in Californina on the heads and tails of VM World in San Francisco and CloudOpen in San Diego.
Read moreJoin us in Los Angeles at the OpenStack & DevOps Meetups August 21st
Join us in the offices of Dreamhost for two great Chef events. That day is OpenStack LA with Opscode’s Senior Technical Evangelist Matt Ray at the Chef OpenStack Cookbooks Hack Day. Later that night is the LA DevOps Meetup with Presentations on Chef. The evening kicks off a 6:30pm with presentations.
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.
Read moreChef for OpenStack
By Matt Ray
UPDATE: You can learn more about our work w/Intel in a blog post from Billy Cox. Opscode is pleased to announce the launch of our Chef for OpenStack project, a reference deployment for building and managing OpenStack clouds.
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