This is just a short and sweet video cooked up by the Opscode 'Ninja Strike Squad' about why one might want to use Chef, an open source data center and cloud...
0 replies - 3411 views - 10/27/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos
This OpsCode talk from Zsolt Dollenstein explores how major web presentation site Prezi uses Chef to cultivate a DevOps culture:
0 replies - 2219 views - 05/05/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles
It’s that time of year again where chefs (and sous-chefs!) come together to talk all-things Chef! This year’s ChefConf took place last week in San...
0 replies - 1820 views - 05/02/13 by Paul Reed in Articles
This assumes you’ve already installed Virtualbox and configured a base VM.mkdir cookbooks
cd cookbooks
git clone...
0 replies - 3171 views - 11/20/12 by Gary Sieling in Articles
Opscode’s Chef is an open-source automation framework for the cloud,
involving ‘recipes’ that can be triggered by events such as servers
booting or...
0 replies - 2643 views - 10/12/12 by Trevor Parsons in Articles
At work we have the notion of multiple
environments. Dev (used by the developers), Staging (used for showcasing
stories), QA/Testing (used by testers) and...
0 replies - 5171 views - 09/07/12 by Ranjib Dey in Articles
People consider Chef as a configuration management tool. You specify the state using the infrastructure DSL that Chef provides. You just apply yoru...
0 replies - 5921 views - 08/26/12 by Ranjib Dey in Articles
It can be finicky business to keep a production server running.
You have to ensure the operating system and any other dependent
software is properly...
0 replies - 15392 views - 07/25/12 by Martin Fowler in Articles
Here is a list of three major types of elasticity that I have implemented / experienced so far:
Horizontal : by adding or removing service instances in...
0 replies - 5387 views - 05/10/12 by Ranjib Dey in Articles
If you are starting to use Puppet or Chef, you must have Vagrant.
Learning Puppet can be a tedious task, getting up the master, agents,
writing your first...
0 replies - 6777 views - 04/20/12 by Carlos Sanchez in Articles
These are the things I'm trying out to keep their Chef codebases (and the infrastructure they control) in shape:
Lint...
0 replies - 5239 views - 04/19/12 by Ranjib Dey in Articles
It’s been a couple heated weeks on the devops front. In part due, again, to the NoOps debacle (see Cockcroft’s post and Allspaw’s reply) and for the...
0 replies - 6017 views - 04/08/12 by Spike Morelli in Articles
This week Opscode, the makers of the enterprise software around open source Chef, received a whopping $19.5M in net Series C funding from Ignition Partners,...
0 replies - 4664 views - 03/27/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
Configuration management is a hot topic these days. Chef is one of
the more popular choices, and does a fairly good job helping you
maintain consistent...
0 replies - 4084 views - 03/26/12 by Geoffrey Papilion in Articles
0 replies - 14190 views - 03/22/12 by James Betteley in Book Reviews
