Today I’d like to share a cookbook that we’ve developed, chef-splunk. This cookbook replaces an old internal Splunk cookbook that has served us well for quite some time, but that one was becoming more difficult to modify and extend. There is a community splunk cookbook already.

Parse Delivers Complete Mobile App Platform with Chef™ Deploys Enterprise Chef™ to Automate Amazon Web Services Infrastructure, Creating Nimble, Easily Scalable Cloud Service That Gets Developers Up and Running in No Time SEATTLE – January 28, 2014 – Chef™, IT automation for speed and awesomeness, today announced that Parse has automated hundreds of Amazon Web […]

This post was originally published on Goat Can. “You are not special. You’re not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You’re the same decaying Enterprise IT Org as everyone else. We’re all part of the same compost heap. We’re all singing, all dancing crap of IT.

In a way, building IT infrastructure isn’t particularly exciting. Want to turn a Linux server into a MySQL database server? Enter some commands to install MySQL. Congratulations, you have successfully used some data (yum -y install mysql-server) to change the generic model (the out-of-the-box operating system). Much of our infrastructure is built the same way.

As you all know, we already have a humming operation in Europe. Now, many of our stateside Chefs are about to embark on a true European adventure, beginning with the London Cloud Summit (LCS) on January 29th.

Ohai chefs, Today we are making available a release candidate for the next major version of Ohai. This release (Ohai 7.0) sets us up for future improvements by resolving current architectural limitations, which will make it easier to build custom plugins.

This Thursday, 1/23, at 10 am PT, our friend John Martinez, who manages the Cloud Platform Engineering team at Adobe, will be joining us for a webinar detailing how his team uses Enterprise Chef, Jenkins, AWS, and more to operate a large, sophisticated cloud infrastructure.

Yesterday we gave a brief update on our new billing system and related process that was admittedly short on detail.

Eric Wolfe received a Commodore 128 computer when he was just five years old and quickly became fascinated with playing games on this new machine. The joys of tinkering with that old Commodore took him through the next decade.