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Chef 11 Server: Up and Running
In this post, we’re going to look at how easy it is to get up and running with a Chef Server on a brand new Ubuntu 12.04 or CentOS 6.3 system. We’ll also explore the new Chef Server management tool, chef-server-ctl, and the new configuration file.
Read moreThe Making of Erchef, the Chef 11 Server
By Seth Falcon
The Chef 11 Server provides significant improvements in terms of compute efficiency, scalability, and operability. We achieved these improvements by rewriting the API server in Erlang and switching the data store from CouchDB to PostgreSQL.
Read moreChef 11 Released!
We’re incredibly proud to share the latest major release of Chef with you. The Chef Client and Chef Server are now separate projects. We will be making separate but compatible releases moving forward. You can download both of them from the Chef download page.
Read moreChef for OpenStack in Boston and NYC
By Matt Ray
What better way to start 2013 than getting involved with Chef for OpenStack in Boston and New York City?
Read moreIntroducing Partial Search for Opscode Hosted Chef
By Seth Falcon
We have deployed a new search API, dubbed /partial search/, to Opscode Hosted Chef. The partial search API is designed to reduce the amount of memory and the network bandwidth required by chef-client to process search results.
Read moreThe Debug Files: Bookshelf and the Broken Transfer Encoding
By Seth Falcon
What follows is the story of a bug we encountered during development of what will become the Chef 11 API server. The story unfolds as we began to integrate and test Bookshelf, a new component that handles cookbook file storage.
Read moreAnnouncing Test Kitchen
Testing Chef cookbooks and infrastructure development is a hot topic these days. One of the keynote talks at ChefConf was Test-driven Development for Chef Practitioners. There’s even a book on the topic of Test Driven Infrastructure with Chef.
Read moreChef for OpenStack
By Matt Ray
UPDATE: You can learn more about our work w/Intel in a blog post from Billy Cox. Opscode is pleased to announce the launch of our Chef for OpenStack project, a reference deployment for building and managing OpenStack clouds.
Read moreOpscode at the OpenStack Design Summit & Conference
By Matt Ray
Opscode is excited to announce that we’ll be attending and sponsoring the OpenStack Design Summit and Conference this week in San Francisco, CA. OpenStack developers, operators and users will gather to discuss the future of this open source cloud platform.
Read moreCookbooks Migrated to New GitHub Organization
Opscode’s cookbooks are no longer maintained in the monolithic “opscode/cookbooks” repository on GitHub, and are now split up into a new organization on GitHub, “opscode-cookbooks”. Why the Change?
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