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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 moreMessage Bus Takes Email to the Cloud with Opscode
By Lucas Welch
More customer goodness today: Our friends at Message Bus, pioneers in cloud-based infrastructure for email, mobile and social messaging, are using Opscode Hosted Chef™ to automate configuration, environment and application management across the multiple cloud IaaS providers powering the company’s innovative service. What is Message Bus’s service exactly?
Read moreWebinar: Electric Cloud and Opscode Chef – The PB&J of DevOps
By Bryan Hale
Last month at the Electric Cloud user summit, Opscode and Electric Cloud jointly demonstrated an integration between Chef and Electric Deploy. One month later, we have been very pleased with the initial feedback and are ready to publicly showcase the fruits of our labors.
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 moreSplunk revs up new SaaS platform w/Hosted Chef
By Lucas Welch
Many of you in our community likely know Splunk, the innovative big data company that enables enterprise companies to collect, analyze and harness the power of their machine data. What you may not know is Splunk now offers a SaaS product designed specifically for the cloud.
Read moreOpscode & Electric Cloud Showcase End to End DevOps Automation
By Bryan Hale
Today at the Electric Cloud Summit, Opscode is very excited to be announcing a collaboration with Electric Cloud around enterprise DevOps. In Electric Cloud, we not only see a company with an impressive user community and complementary technology, but an enthusiastic commitment to software delivery that rivals our own.
Read moreAll You Wanted to Know About Continuous Delivery (Almost): Webinar + Whitepaper
By Lucas Welch
We’re seeing a large number of Chef users, whether open source, Hosted or Private, deploying, or beginning to investigate, continuous application delivery. Continuous delivery follows the path set out by agile development with the goal of accelerating time-to-market, while reducing production risks.
Read moreThe History of Chef – What’s in a Name?
By Lucas Welch
Ever wondered how Chef got its name? Or why the heck Chef was created in the first place? We’ve got answers for you.
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.
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