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Food Fight, the New Chef Community Podcast

Food Fight is a new podcast for the Chef community, discussing and summarizing the assorted news and topics of the day. It’s hosted by community member Bryan Berry and Opscode employee Matt Ray. They plan on interviewing lots of people from the greater Chef community and publishing every few weeks.

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An Opscode year in review

Like most open source projects, Chef began with an itch. From a small group of friends and colleagues, a band of system administrators who wanted a better way to build infrastructure, we have grown into a large and supportive community.

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Video of Michael T. Nygard on “Chef in the Cloud and On the Ground”

InfoQ just posted a great video & presentation of Michael T. Nygard talking about using Chef in the datacenter and in the cloud for managing physical and virtual systems at GOTO Aarhus.

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Why Chef?

Bryan Barry over at the devopsanywhere blog has written a great post about Chef containing his thoughts on why you might want to start using Chef to manage your infrastructure.

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Why Chef – A short video about Opscode Chef & Cloud Infrastructure Automation

Here is a short “Chef 101” video introduction for Opscode Chef & Cloud Infrastructure Automation, covering what Chef is, how Chef works in public clouds, private clouds, and hybrid environments.

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Jesse Robbins interview on DevOps Cafe #19 (w/ full transcript!)

Opscode’s Jesse Robbins is interviewed by Damon Edwards & John Willis of DTO Solutions on the DevOpsCafe Postcast. Topics include the origins of DevOps within Amazon & elsewhere, Jesse’s culture hacks, and enterprise adoption.

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Opscode Hosts Seattle Area Hack Day, September 24th

Join us on September 24th at the Opscode mothership for our very first Hack Day in Seattle! Meet with the Opscode team & other members of our community, hack on Chef & your own infrastructure projects, eat good food, drink beer, attempt to beat the Opscode team at Foosball.

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Opscode Hosts 2 Day Chef Fundamentals Training September 22 & 23

Join Opscode’s Director of Training and Services, Joshua Timberman, at Opscode HQ for a two-day comprehensive class covering the architecture of Chef and all of the underlying components. This includes: Creating Chef repositories, creating cookbooks and advanced tips & tricks with the of the Knife command line utility.

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Happy Systems Administrator Appreciation Day!

SysAdmin is a title worn proudly at Opscode… because SysAdmins are awesome. Today, July 29th 2011, is officially SysAdmin Appreciation Day, and fellow SysAdmins… thank you for all the work that you do.

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Jesse Robbins interview “On the Money”: Opscode, DevOps, & more (transcript)

A few weeks ago I was invited to appear on Mike Adams’ “On The Money”, a business radio show on KKNW 1150.  It was a fun conversation.  A transcript of my segment is below: Mike Adams: Welcome back to “On the Money.” You’re listening to Mike Adams of Adams Financial Concepts.

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