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JJ Asghar

JJ works with Strategic Technical Alliances at Chef Software making integrations work with Chef, Habitat, and InSpec. He works on everything from Azure, VMware, OpenStack, and Cisco with everything in between. He also heads up the Chef Partner Cookbook Program to make sure customers of Chef and vendors get the highest quality certified cookbooks. He grew up and currently lives in Austin, Texas.

Building a Factorio Multiplayer Server on Digital Ocean

By JJ Asghar

March 21, 2016

I’m pleased to announce we’ve released a cookbook to build a multiplayer server for Factorio. If you don’t know, Factorio is a resource gathering game with real-time strategy and survival elements, development by Wube Software.

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HipChat/Chef Server Integration

By JJ Asghar

March 17, 2016

Do you know about ChatOps? With ChatOps, you run tool commands from within a chat client. The client is configured so that it can execute those commands, which means everyone who’s participating in the conversation can see what’s happening in real time.

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Lets build a Minecraft Server with Chef

By JJ Asghar

August 27, 2015

There are many ways to use Chef and not all of them have to be related to your day job. If you’re a fan of Minecraft you can use Chef to create a Minecraft server on Digital Ocean.

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Chef! Where is my Ubuntu 14.04 service support?

By JJ Asghar

September 19, 2014

So you’ve decided to update or use Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. You’ve probably started leveraging Chef in some awesome way. The problem is, you put in a nice little service Resource and see something like: Chef::Exceptions::Exec \———————- /usr/sbin/update-rc.d

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