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Future of Opscode Cookbooks
We’re making changes to the Opscode cookbooks repository about what cookbooks we include and how we provide support for them. As a large number of people rely on our cookbooks, we want to be clear about the intentions of the repository, and how we plan to release and support cookbooks going forward.
Read moreChef 0.10.0 Released!
By Dan DeLeo
After a lengthy testing process, we’re very proud to announce that Chef 0.10.0 is officially released. Chef 0.10 is a huge step forward, improving many aspects of the Chef experience.
Read moreChef 0.10 Preview: Encrypted Data Bags
By Seth Falcon
Chef 0.10 Preview: Encrypted Data Bags Many server roles, such as databases, require setting up passwords as part of their configuration. A common pattern is to put such passwords in a data bag stored on the Chef server. Recipes can then access the data bag to automate the configuration.
Read moreChef 0.10 Preview: chefignore
By Dan DeLeo
Here’s the issue: we love our text editors and version control systems, but, despite all the indespensible things these tools do for us, they sometimes leave behind temporary or data files that we don’t want to distribute to every host in our infrastructure. Before Chef 0.
Read moreSeattle Chef Users Meeting: Wednesday May 11
Hello Chefs! Once again, the folks at White Pages will host a Seattle area Chef users meetup, and we’d love to see you there! Opscode will be in attendance, and will also present a tour of features in the highly anticipated Chef 0.10 release. Pizza and beverages will be provided by Opscode.
Read moreChef 0.10 Preview: Knife Plugins and UI
By Dan DeLeo
Chef 0.10 Preview: Knife Plugins knife began as a simple thor script created by Joshua Sierles of 37signals. As soon as we saw it, we knew it was such a great idea that we had to incorporate it into Chef. With a bit of a redesign, Chef 0.
Read moreChef 0.10 Preview: Environments
By Dan DeLeo
Chef 0.10 recently hit the release candidate phase of the release process, so I’d like to give you all a preview of the new features in Chef while we’re finalizing the code. The biggest new feature in Chef 0.10 is environment support, so we’ll start there.
Read moreBoulder Chef Hack Day
Following the success of our recent Chef Hack Day in Austin, Texas, on Saturday April 30 we will have the first Denver/Boulder area hack day! Opscode will be in attendance with members of the developer and services teams. What: Spend a Saturday hacking on Chef itself, or on your cookbooks.
Read moreOrange County PHP and Los Angeles PHP Meetups on April 27th and 28th
By brandon
We will be at the Orange County PHP and Los Angeles PHP Meetups on April 27th and 28th. See below for more info. Aaron Peterson is a long-time Systems Engineer and Administrator who has worked at scale for companies like Amazon.com and BofA.
Read moreOpscode at the Texas Linux Fest
By Matt Ray
The Texas Linux Fest is in Austin this Saturday April 2! This is the second year for this Linux and Open Source conference and it looks like it’s going to be a great show.
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