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Automate All The Things!!! – Video of Jesse Robbins’ Keynote @ Cloud Connect

Slides Video & the “Automate All the Things!” from Jesse Robbins’ Cloud Connect Keynote.

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Chef @Work: Telling Cool Customer Stories, Today and Everyday

Chef is cool. Chef is community. PR is not necessarily either of those things. We get that. But enabling customers to do great things – easier, faster and better – is cool. That is what Opscode’s all about: Customer success and enabling the community.

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Post-Hoc Index Design: From Regex to PEG

In September of last year, the team faced one of its first challenges in responding to the growing user base of Hosted Chef. The on-call engineer at the time received an alert that the queue used to store Chef objects waiting to be indexed for search was backed up.

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#ChefConf 2012 – Call for Proposals

In a few days we’ll be officially announcing #ChefConf 2012, our inaugural community conference. #ChefConf will be held May 15-17th in Burlingame, California. We’re really excited about what we’re putting together. The CFP is open now!

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Food Fight, the New Chef Community Podcast

Food Fight is a new podcast for the Chef community, discussing and summarizing the assorted news and topics of the day. It’s hosted by community member Bryan Berry and Opscode employee Matt Ray. They plan on interviewing lots of people from the greater Chef community and publishing every few weeks.

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An Opscode year in review

Like most open source projects, Chef began with an itch. From a small group of friends and colleagues, a band of system administrators who wanted a better way to build infrastructure, we have grown into a large and supportive community.

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Video of Michael T. Nygard on “Chef in the Cloud and On the Ground”

InfoQ just posted a great video & presentation of Michael T. Nygard talking about using Chef in the datacenter and in the cloud for managing physical and virtual systems at GOTO Aarhus.

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Why Chef?

Bryan Barry over at the devopsanywhere blog has written a great post about Chef containing his thoughts on why you might want to start using Chef to manage your infrastructure.

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Why Chef – A short video about Opscode Chef & Cloud Infrastructure Automation

Here is a short “Chef 101” video introduction for Opscode Chef & Cloud Infrastructure Automation, covering what Chef is, how Chef works in public clouds, private clouds, and hybrid environments.

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Jesse Robbins interview on DevOps Cafe #19 (w/ full transcript!)

Opscode’s Jesse Robbins is interviewed by Damon Edwards & John Willis of DTO Solutions on the DevOpsCafe Postcast. Topics include the origins of DevOps within Amazon & elsewhere, Jesse’s culture hacks, and enterprise adoption.

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