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Video: Why Chef for Cloud Automation?

This is just a short and sweet video cooked up by the Opscode 'Ninja Strike Squad' about why one might want to use Chef, an open source data center and cloud...

0 replies - 3408 views - 10/27/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos

DZone Links You Don't Want To Miss (2/12/13)

Bill Gates AMA  If you haven't already done so, you should check out the comments from Bill Gates' AMA.  My favorite part was when someone asked...

0 replies - 4095 views - 02/12/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Evolving Enterprise Infrastructure Using Chef

People consider Chef as a configuration management tool. You specify the state using the infrastructure DSL that Chef provides. You just apply yoru...

0 replies - 5916 views - 08/26/12 by Ranjib Dey in Articles

Are DevOps Followers Just "Rabid" Puppet & Chef Users?

It’s been a couple heated weeks on the devops front. In part due, again, to the NoOps debacle (see Cockcroft’s post and Allspaw’s reply) and for the...

0 replies - 6009 views - 04/08/12 by Spike Morelli in Articles

Consuming Chef API from Any Script - Part 1

Its been more than a year since we have adopted Chef for ThoughtWorks. We use Chef not only for configuration management but also for provisioning...

0 replies - 5684 views - 03/31/12 by Ranjib Dey in Articles

Test-Driven Infrastructure with Chef – A Book Review

0 replies - 14188 views - 03/22/12 by James Betteley in Book Reviews

Infrastructure as Code - The Key to DevOps

DevOps is not about the tools That’s true, in the same way that agile is not about the tools either, it’s a set of ideas, concepts, best...

1 replies - 8596 views - 03/18/12 by Carlos Sanchez in Articles

Cool Visualization of Etsy's Chef Repo 2010-2011

Etsy used Gource, a software version control visualization tool to map Chef Repo. Software projects are displayed by Gource as an animated tree with the root...

0 replies - 4677 views - 01/26/12 by Chris Smith in Videos

Why we chose Chef over Puppet at CustomInk

Not unlike most technology choices, the choice of which configuration management tool to use for managing your infrastructure as code is sure to spark...

1 replies - 6905 views - 11/28/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

DevOps is not an absolute. It's a range

Abstract by Mitchell Hashimoto: Many still consider and talk about DevOps as an absolute thing: developers and operations are the same thing. Of course, this...

0 replies - 8993 views - 11/23/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Unseating Bad Habits With 1 Month of Chef

What a difference a month makes with one new tool.  For Bryan Berry, the author of DevOpsAnywhere, it fundamentally changed the way he views system...

0 replies - 2872 views - 10/31/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Wired Magazine Recognizes DevOps as "Sexy IT"

Wired magazine just jumped on the DevOps bandwagon.Okay, so automated configuration management isn't exactly news to DZoners. (Seriously -- we have a whole...

0 replies - 4192 views - 10/27/11 by John Esposito in Articles

Chef Adds More Cookbooks for Windows

Today Opscode announced new Chef cookbooks for integration with server instances running Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2,...

0 replies - 6040 views - 10/25/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Video: DevOps & BigData at Massive Scale

The MIT TR35 presentations hosted an awesome session today with Jeff Hammerbacher, a Data specialist who worked at Facebook, and Jesse Robbins, the CEO of...

0 replies - 4726 views - 10/18/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DevOps for Devs in 3 Steps

A presentation entitled "DevOps for Developers" was given at the WebTech 2011 conference and now the slides are up online for all to see.  I'll...

1 replies - 4277 views - 10/17/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles