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Choose Your Own Adventure – Devops
By John Willis
This is one of the clips from Adam’s now famous "Choose Your Own Adventure" Velocity 2010 talk.
Read moreVelocity, Opscode – IT Management & Cloud Podcast #74
By John Willis
Michael Cote and I run an IT Management podcast series. I like to say we are the "Click and Clack" of IT management. On this latest podcast we were able to track down Adam Jacob and Chris Brown and ask them some great questions about Velocity 2010 and the new Opscode announcements.
Read moreOpscode Brings on Two New Technical Evangelists
By John Willis
SEATTLE, WA—(Marketwire – 06/02/10) – Opscode, Inc., a cloud infrastructure automation company, today announced the appointment of two new technical evangelists: Adrian Cole, founder of jclouds.org, an open source cloud framework that enables developers to reuse their java code, and Aaron Peterson, a 14-year systems and network veteran.
Read moreIntroduction to Chef – Web Presentation
By John Willis
Please join us for a one hour presentation called “Introduction to Chef”. The presentation is a free Web based session that will include a fifteen minute Q&A.
Read moreGluecon 2010 – Configuration Management in the Cloud
By John Willis
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Read moreOpscamp San Francisco (Un-Panel)
By John Willis
OpsCamp San Francisco 2010 Panel Discussion from dev2ops.org on Vimeo. "Unpanel" discussion that kicked off OpsCamp San Francisco (May 15, 2010) Topics covered include "DevOps", "Repository management and dependencies", "Security is not compliance", "Provisioning management", "Load balancing across datacenters/clouds", and more!
Read moreOpscamp San Francisco
By John Willis
We ran our third Opscamp this weekend in San Francisco. Like the Austin Opscamp we ran back in January, this one was great. We had over 150 people registered and wound up with about 100 actual attendees. GWOS provided the facility and did a great job with breakfast and lunch.
Read moreOpscode Training, Services and Evangelism
By John Willis
Hi, my name is John Willis, and I am the VP of Training, Services, & Evangelism (TSE) at Opscode. I have been on-board for about three months and have been very busy building a team, creating our first materials, and getting everything off the ground. Here’s how we work: Our mission is simple: Massive Chef Adoption. Here is an overview of how we will do this: Training We recently completed our first 3-day Chef Training (it sold out BTW!) and are planning many more. We will be doing regular public, private and web based training sessions, labs, and workshops. If you are interested in Opscode training for you, your company, or your city please fill out our training form. Services We are working with a select group of trusted partners who are experienced with Opscode, Chef, and Infrastructure Automation. We will be supporting them as they deploy Chef and the Opscode Platform for their customers. Expect to see some exciting announcements around alliances and partnerships in the upcoming weeks, followed by broader program in the coming months. Evangelism We are building a exceptional team of industry experts that who love speaking, coding and writing about implementing world class Infrastructure Automation. We will spread the word around the world speaking at some of the most exciting open source, cloud, and infrastructure conferences. When you run into one of us, please come over and talk! We eat, drink and sleep Infrastructure Automation, Cloud Computing, and DevOps and want to help you do awesome stuff (even if it isn’t Chef related). We are also huge supporters of OpsCamp and DevOps meetups and will be available at many of these events. I hope that gives you a little insight into what we are cooking up here at Opscode. Stay tuned! Here is a list of places you can find us over the next few months. Upcoming Cloudcamps and Opscamps Cloudcamp Denver Cloudcamp Detroit Opscamp Seattle Opscamp Atlanta Scaling and Managing Applications in the Cloud Gov2.0 Expo Washington, DC – Wednesday, May 26th 2010 Jesse Robbins Configuration Management in the Cloud Gluecon 2010 Denver – Thursday, May 27th John Willis The Cambrian Cloud Explosion Epicenter 2010 Dublin – Thursday, June 10th John Willis Configuration Management in the Cloud Epicenter 2010 Dublin – Thursday, June 11th John Willis Infrastructure Automation with Chef Velocity 2010 Santa Clara – Tuesday, June 22nd John Willis, Adam Jacob Configuration Management With Chef 2010 Usenix Cloud Configuration Management Summit Boston – Thursday, June 24th Aaron Peterson Does the Cloud Need DevOps Devopsdays USA Santa Clara – Friday, June 25th John Willis Automated Infrastructure is on the Menu with Chef OSCON 2010 – Operations Portland – Tuesday, July 20th Joshua Timberman Opening Session OSCON 2010 – Cloud Summit Portland – Tuesday, July 20th Simon Wardley and John Willis Cloudy Operations OSCON 2010 – Cloud Summit Portland – Tuesday, July 20th John Willis Open Source Tool Chains for Cloud Computing OSCON 2010 – Cloud Computing Portland – Wednesday, July 21th John Willis The Infrastructure Philharmonic OSCON 2010 – Operations Portland – Thursday, July 22nd John Willis
Read moreCloud Camp Toronto Lightning Talk
By John Willis
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Read moreChef Training Class in Seattle 4/26/2010
By John Willis
Chef Fundamentals (3 Days) Chef Fundamentals is a three-day comprehensive class covering the basic architecture of Chef and all of the underlying components. We will be covering installation basics of Chef Client and Chef Solo. Other topics will include: creating Chef repositories, creating cookbooks and advanced using of the new command line utility called Knife.
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