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Awesome Community Chef: Eric Wolfe – “Game to Cook (w/Chef, Linux, Pork, Beef…)”
By Lucas Welch
Eric Wolfe received a Commodore 128 computer when he was just five years old and quickly became fascinated with playing games on this new machine. The joys of tinkering with that old Commodore took him through the next decade.
Read moreUpgrading Chef using Chef
By Tom Duffield
One of our goals here at Chef (née Opscode) is to make installing Chef on a new node as easy as possible so that you can start enjoying the benefits of automation with minimal delay. But what happens to nodes that stick around for extended periods of time?
Read moreDoing Wrapper Cookbooks Right
By Julian Dunn
One great thing about the Chef community is how various people have dreamed up ways to use Chef. One of the most popular patterns is the wrapper cookbook, first popularized by Awesome Chef Bryan Berry‘s blog post, How to Write Reusable Chef Cookbooks, Gangnam Style.
Read moreCommunity Cookbooks
By Sean O'Meara
Earlier this month we held the third annual Opscode Community Summit. There, we shared some lessons we’ve learned about publishing and maintaining community cookbooks. For those that could not be there, we’d like to share them with you as well.
Read moreOpscode To Steward Berkshelf
Chef was built from the beginning as an extensible framework that makes IT professionals’ lives easier. This extensibility has always led to interesting and exciting contributions from the community of Chef users. Innovative solutions for common challenges and process and tooling improvements help Chef users change the way IT works.
Read moreAwesome Community Chefs: Miah Johnson – Game for Cookbooking Awesome
By Lucas Welch
The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment (The MADE) in Oakland, CA is a one-of-a-kind place offering gamers of all shapes and sizes and opportunity to relive the milestones of gaming history and participate in epic tournaments, while kids can learn programming for free and get initiated into gaming culture.
Read moreWhip Up Awesome w/the Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook
By Lucas Welch
The Chef Community and its many awesome contributors keep doing amazing things. Case in point, our friend Matthias Marschall (a software engineer ‘made in Germany’ and CTO at gutefrage.net GmbH helping run Germany’s biggest Q&A site) just published his new book “Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook”.
Read moreIntroducing Enterprise Chef
By Lucas Welch
What’s in a name? Turns out, a lot. Today we announced that Private Chef and Hosted Chef are now renamed to Enterprise Chef™ offered both as on-premise software and as a hosted service. So what?
Read moreOpscode Chef™ Delivers Robust Open Source Automation Platform for Windows Environments
By Lucas Welch
Opscode Announces New Collaboration with Microsoft to Enable Opscode Chef Cookbooks to Take Advantage of Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration Capabilities New Version of Opscode Chef Adds to Native Open Source Functionality for Automating Wide Range of Windows Infrastructure Operations SEATTLE – August 19, 2013 – Opscode®, the foundation of the coded business, today announced […]
Read moreOpscode and Arista Networks Extend IT Automation to Networking
By Lucas Welch
Integration of Opscode Chef™ with Arista EOS Automates the Configuration and Management of Physical and Virtual Networking Resources SEATTLE – August 19, 2013 – Opscode®, the foundation of the coded business, and Arista Networks, today announced the integration of Opscode Chef™ and Arista Extensible Operating System (EOS).
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