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DevOps
Post-Hoc Index Design: From Regex to PEG
By Seth Falcon
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.
Read more#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!
Read moreFood Fight, the New Chef Community Podcast
By Matt Ray
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.
Read moreAn 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.
Read moreVideo 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.
Read moreWhy Chef?
By Brian Taylor
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.
Read moreWhy Chef – A short video about Opscode Chef & Cloud Infrastructure Automation
By Sean O'Meara
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.
Read moreJesse 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.
Read moreOpscode Hosts Seattle Area Hack Day, September 24th
Join us on September 24th at the Opscode mothership for our very first Hack Day in Seattle! Meet with the Opscode team & other members of our community, hack on Chef & your own infrastructure projects, eat good food, drink beer, attempt to beat the Opscode team at Foosball.
Read moreOpscode Hosts 2 Day Chef Fundamentals Training September 22 & 23
Join Opscode’s Director of Training and Services, Joshua Timberman, at Opscode HQ for a two-day comprehensive class covering the architecture of Chef and all of the underlying components. This includes: Creating Chef repositories, creating cookbooks and advanced tips & tricks with the of the Knife command line utility.
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