Author:

Justin Fenton

Former Chef Employee


Joint Webinar: Automating Microsoft Azure with Chef

On March 19th we’re excited to bring together Microsoft and Chef to dig into the technical specifics outlined in our recent joint partnership announcement. Michael Ducy (@mfdii) and Steven Murawski (@stevenmurawski) of Chef will be joined by Kundana Palagiri (@KundanaP) of Microsoft to dig into what is means to use Chef as the DevOps platform with Microsoft Azure.

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Rocket Science with OpenWhere, Ostrato and Chef

This is a guest post by Brock Spradling, Director of Sales and Marketing at Ostrato  On March 12th we’re excited to bring together OpenWhere, Chef and Ostrato on a webinar to discuss how this geospatial analytics startup is able to compete in the hyper-competitive defense marketplace.

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Azure & Chef, Episode 3

Don’t Get Spooked by LAMP on Azure! On Wednesday, October 29th at 12:00pm CST, we are joining 10th Magnitude for a special Halloween episode in our Azure + Chef = Awesome Series. We’ll show you why Linux is a first class workload in Microsoft Azure.

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Learn how Scholastic migrated to AWS with Chef automation

Daryn McCool was nice enough to share the story of Scholastic’s major IT modernization initiative with us. It was a great opportunity to have an enterprise customer walk through their journey to the cloud. If you are considering an IT modernization project or looking for best practices in the community, I’d recommend watching the webinar.

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Deutsche Telekom’s Enterprise DevOps Journey

This is a guest post by Shruti Bhat, Director Products at Ravello Systems While the debate rages on about DevOps for enterprises, one large enterprise brought together rock-solid quality of service and extreme agility to create a “best of worlds” DevOps implementation.

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Live from DockerCon

Today we joined our friends at Docker for their user conference – DockerCon 2014. There’s a ton going on at the show today and tomorrow, including Docker announcing its first production-ready version, Docker 1.0. Of course, your friendly Chefs are out in force at the show, so please stop by our booth for a chat.

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Announcing Chef Support for HP Helion

We’re excited to announce the release of knife-hp  0.4.0, a major update to the plugin refactored to support the HP Helion Public Cloud version 13.5 release. HP’s API has changed to support a number of new OpenStack features (with many more to come), so the usage of the plugin has changed quite a bit.

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Chef + Azure = Awesome

On June 4th with our partner 10th Magnitude, we are launching a technical webinar focused on how Chef is automating and accelerating Azure deployments.

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Thoughts from OpenStack Summit

Looking back at last week’s OpenStack “Juno” Summit in Atlanta, there were a tremendous number of great conversations and presentations on OpenStack and Chef. With over 4,500 people there, it was exciting to hear about more and more production deployments of OpenStack with Chef (including the likes of Bloomberg and SAP).

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ICYMI: Ep. 1 of #learnchef Webinar Series

This morning we delivered session #1 in our six part webinar series around learning Chef. We were overwhelmed by your interest, questions and engagement. Thank you to all who attended this morning. If you missed session #1, you still have the opportunity to catch up and join us for the final 5 installments.

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