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DevOps
Check us out @AGILE Talking DevOps, Chef, and More
By Lucas Welch
The AGILE 2013 conference descends on grand ol’ Nashville next week and of course your friends from Opscode will be there in force, from an exhibition booth to our awesome consultant and “lnxchk” Mandi Walls speaking on (what else?
Read moreAwesome DevOps Panel: IBM, Netflix, Warner Music, Opscode, Jenkins, & Puppet
By Lucas Welch
This is not only a cool panel topic, but also a rad group of people to have all discussing DevOps and Continuous Delivery (in the cloud) at one time. Last week, Redmonk analyst James Governor hosted the latest addition to the IBM PureSystems video chat series on opinionated infrastructure.
Read moreIn the News: MSFT Reorg, DevOps in the Enterprise, and Amazon Price Cuts
By Lucas Welch
Coming off Independence Day, this week has seen an active news cycle in tech, led by Microsoft announcing a significant reorganization of the software giant around “One Microsoft”. All Things D takes a look at what it all means here, while InformationWeek takes a bigger picture look here.
Read moreUpcoming Webinar with Forrester Research – Building a Coded Business: Culture, Tools and the Need for Speed
By Brian Taylor
At organizations from Fortune 100 enterprises to Web 2.0 startups, IT is transitioning from a back office support function to a front office imperative as the primary delivery platform for goods, services, and customer engagement.
Read moreStop Shaving the Yak – Mandi Walls Kicks Off Velocity 2013
By Lucas Welch
As many of you know, Opscode has a solid presence down at Velocity 2013, and thanks to the good folks at Data Center Knowledge, we have a live report of what our first of three speakers, the awesome Mandi Walls, had to say this morning: “All three of the morning sessions were jam-packed, with literally […]
Read more“You just put the code in. Chef takes care of it.” – Chef + Berkshelf @Riot Games
By Lucas Welch
For the third installment of our new #ChefTalks customer video series, we interviewed Jamie Winsor, a newly minted Awesome Chef, the author of Berkshelf, and Software Engineer at Riot Games.
Read more“At some point you have to deal with reality.” – Chef for Config Mgmt @Facebook
By Lucas Welch
As most of you in the Community already know, Facebook uses Opscode Private Chef to automate configuration management for its ‘Carl Sagan big’ infrastructure. That’s very cool, but also pretty widely known. Today, we published a new angle to the story.
Read more“We have Unix engineers now happily automating Windows” – Chef + Cultural Change @Nordstrom
By Lucas Welch
Today we launched a new series of Chef testimonial videos offering varied and unique perspectives on the journey to becoming a coded business. The first of these #ChefTalks videos features Rob Cummings, infrastructure engineer at Nordstrom, discussing how to level-up change in your organization.
Read moreIn the News – Red Hat Roadmap, E-Commerce Booming
By Lucas Welch
Need some weekend reading? We recommend checking out SearchDataCenter‘s interview with Red Hat’s director of software engineering Denise Dumas, detailing roadmap plans for RHEL. Meanwhile InfoWorld looks at Red Hat’s new Software Collections 1.0, featuring new versions of Ruby and Python for RHEL.
Read moreOpscode @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.
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