Mitch Pronschinske10/27/11
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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...
Ranjib Dey05/10/12
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Here is a list of three major types of elasticity that I have implemented / experienced so far. I'm also setting up a unit and functional testing environment that will re-utilize some of our architecture.
Carlos Sanchez04/20/12
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If you are starting to use Puppet or Chef, you must have Vagrant! Check it out!
Ranjib Dey04/19/12
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This article contains methods that a ThoughtWorks engineer is trying out to keep their Chef codebases (and the infrastructure they control) in shape:
Spike Morelli04/08/12
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The DevOps google group recently discussed the perception of DevOps followers as folks who are users, developers, and fans of chef, puppet, and similar tools. Most people on the group agreed that this perception cannot become reality for DevOps to succeed as a movement.
Mitch Pronschinske03/27/12
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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, bringing their total financing to $31M. That's nearly double the financing received by competitor Puppet Labs, who builds software around another config management tool—Puppet.
Geoffrey Papilion03/26/12
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When using automation tools remember to check to see if it achieved the results you expected; never blindly trust the tool. Here are two common scenarios in Chef where you might introduce a configuration issue.
James Betteley03/22/12
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A while ago I ordered a copy of “Test-Driven Infrastructure with
Chef” from Amazon. It must have been sometime last summer in fact. It
took months to arrive, because they simply didn’t have...
Geoffrey Papilion03/05/12
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This blogger has a gripe with almost every configuration management tool he's used. He's most familiar with Chef and he's also used puppet a bit, but his examples will all be in Chef, even though he sees problems with all CM tools.
Matthew Macdona...02/20/12
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I’ve been using Puppet to mange systems for the last four years (at least!) however a new contract has meant I’ve needed to learn Chef. A few months ago I was looking for a blog post on the differences between puppet and Chef written from an objective point of view and the fantastic @nathenharvey produced a blog post about exactly that topic. This post is more of a comment on my feelings about the two different systems and comparing the way in which they work.
Chris Smith02/02/12
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Dell recently released the Crowbar Source under the Apache 2 license, and many developers are excited about the possibility of deploying Dell's OpenStack Cloud Solution in a matter of hours instead of days. Originally developed as an OpenStack installer by Dell's CloudEdge Solutions Team, it has quickly grown into a much more powerful tool, currently used as a wrapper for Opscode's Chef Server.
Eric Genesky01/19/12
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The end of days is nigh for the profession of systems administration according to Julian Dunn, a digital media systems designer and architect. At a recent meeting of the New York City Linux Users' Group, a presentation using the configuration management...
Mitch Pronschinske12/21/11
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There are as many ways of managing the configuration of heterogeneous
systems as there are engineers trying to solve this problem. This talk
explores one...
Mitch Pronschinske12/15/11
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Today DevOps-coiner Patrick Dubois tweeted: "wow - @guttertec visualized my ideas so much better". The link in that tweet was to a slideshare stack posted by Alex Quack which I will now share with you so that you too can go "wow - very...
Mitch Pronschinske11/28/11
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Not unlike most technology
choices, the choice of which configuration management tool to use for
managing your infrastructure as code is sure to spark debate among
opinionated technologists. There are certainly a number of choices
available all of ...
