Welcome to the second issue of the What's Cookin' newsletter!
- DevOpsDays NYC - Wrap-up Episode
- DevOpsDays With Matthias Meyer
- Roles, Environments, Attributes, and Data Bags - Part 1 - YouTube Video
We are preparing episodes on the following topics and would love your help generating questions, identifying panelists, etc.
- Part 2 of our discussion on Roles, Environments, Attributes, and Data Bags - 22 Jan 19:00 UTC
- Managing Windows servers with Chef - 24 Jan 18:00 UTC
- LWRPs and Libraries - TBD
- Unit Testing Chef Cookbooks - In this post, Seth Vargo (@sethvargo) provides a nice walkthrough of setting up some unit tests with ChefSpec.
- Spiceweasel 2.0 was recently released. Spiceweasel is a command-line tool for batch loading Chef infrastructure from a file. Check the detailed CHANGELOG for the latest changes.
- The recent Opscode Chef Community Seattle Meetup was held as a Google+ Hangout and the video is now available on YouTube
- SublimeChef - A Sublime Text 2 Package for authoring Chef related files. There's a video on YouTube that shows the plugin in action.
- The Rackspace DevOps Blog is running a "Cooking with Chef" series. Check out Part 1 and Part 2
- Adaptive Fault Detection - A presentation from Baron Schwartz (@xaprb) that was given at a recent DevOpsDC Meetup
- Chef + Environments = Safer Infrastructure - a look at using environments to roll-out changes to your infrastructure.
- The USE method addresses shortcomings in other commonly used methodologies - an excellent article that explores a better way to troubleshoot performance problems.
- On Pager Duty - An article for Mathias Meyer (@roidrage) about his experiences being on call.
- Our Experiences with Chef: Adoption Challenges - an article that looks at adopting Chef at OmniTI.
- vagrant-postgresql is a project from Scott Muc (@ScottMuc) that allows you to easily stand-up a PostgreSQL environment using Vagrant and Chef. Scott also posted a video of his demo.
- Helpful Vagrant bash functions/tab completions - A post detailing some ways to streamline you Vagrant workflow.
- knife-spork was recently updated to include support for Berkshelf and more. Checkout the CHANGELOG for all the latest changes.
- Ever wanted to create your very own LWRP? Check out Doug Ireton's (@dougireton) latest blog series - Creating an LWRP - Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3
DevOpsDays NYC was held on January 17 and 18. Here are some presentations from the conference:
- Video Stream from DevOpsDays NYC
- We're Doing it Wrong!
- DevOps Hiring
- Automate or Die - Aaron Quint's (@aq) DevOpsDays NYC presentation.
- Failure is Always an Option - a blog post that covers the ideas from Mathias Meyer's (@roidrage) DevOpsDays talk.
Meetup with people in your neighborhood at one of the following meetup groups.
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Jesse Robbins (@jesserobbins) will be in London for Cloud Expo. The DevOps London organizers are trying to lock down a date for a meetup with Jesse. RSVP Now.
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22-Jan - Chef-BOSTON - [Chef for OpenStack and Chef 11 with Matt Ray]http://www.meetup.com/Chef-BOSTON/events/98235712/)
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24-Jan - DevOps Milwaukee - Continuous Delivery concepts and the tool chains that support them.
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29-Jan - Chef NYC - Chef Workflow Strategies
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29-Jan - Seattle DevOps - January Meetup
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30-Jan - DevOpsUT - Inaugural DevOpsUT Meetup
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4-Feb - Los Angeles Chef Users Group - Edmunds' Continuous Delivery with Chef
You've got a great story or two to share about Chef and how automation has transformed the way you work. Why not share that at your local meetup group or by submitting a talk to one of these conferences? CFPs are closing soon so submit your talk today!
- USENIX Annual Technical Conference - CFP closes 23-Jan
- RubyConf Uruguay 2013 - CFP closes 31-Jan
- OSCON - CFP closes 4-Feb
- #ChefConf 2013 - You have to be there! - CFP closes 15-Feb
Use promotional code 'FOODFIGHT' to save 10% off Chef Introductory Workshops in Atlanta, Austin, Berlin, Boston, Chicago, DC, Denver, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, Portland, and San Diego.
#ChefConf 2013 will be taking place April 22-24 in San Francisco. Order your tickets with promotional code 'FOODFIGHT' to save 15%.
We want to hear YOUR stories at #ChefConf! Propose a talk today.
Cookbooks on the Community Site - 765
Knife Plugins on RubyGems.org - 82
Chef Gems available on RubyGems.org - 94
- acct - retr0h - Installs/Configures acct
- aws-cloud-watch-cli-tools - gorodetsky - Installs and configures AWS CloudWatch cli tools
- clamav - roboticcheese - Installs/configures ClamAV
- cloudformation - avishai - Tools for integrating Chef with CloudFormation
- gdal - pjungwir - Installs GDAL
- geos - pjungwir - Installs GEOS
- libev - tk0miya - Installs libev (from source)
- libevent - tk0miya - Installs libevent (from source)
- locales - phbergsmann - Installs/Configures locales
- manual - jasonberanek - contains resources and providers to allow documentation of manaul installation steps within a set of Chef recipes.
- proj - pjungwir - Installs PROJ
- rabbitmq_settings - sawanoboly - Converge rabbitmq settings using lwrp. Depends on opscode-cookbook[rabbitmq].
- salt - retr0h - Installs/Configures salt
- sas2ircu - retr0h - Installs/Configures sas2ircu
- smartmachine_functions - sawanoboly - Chef patches for joyent smartos(smartmachine).
- swap - sethvargo - Provides an LWRP for easily creating a managing swap files and swap partitions.
- tcpspy - retr0h - Installs/Configures tcpspy
- zeus-zxtm - ct - Installs/Configures zeus-zxtm
- akibanserver (0.1.5)
- apache2 (1.4.2)
- application_python (1.0.6)
- application_ruby (1.0.8)
- apt (1.8.0)
- artifact (1.0.0)
- authbind (0.1.4)
- aws (0.100.6)
- bluepill (2.2.0)
- cerberus (1.0.3)
- chef-client (2.1.6)
- chef_handler (1.1.4)
- cloudfoundry-cloud_controller (1.3.5)
- cloudfoundry-dea (1.1.2)
- cloudfoundry-filesystem-service (1.0.3)
- cloudfoundry-health_manager (1.0.2)
- cloudfoundry-mongodb-service (1.1.0)
- cloudfoundry-nginx (1.0.4)
- cloudfoundry-rabbitmq-service (1.1.2)
- cloudfoundry-router (1.0.2)
- cloudfoundry-ruby-runtime (1.2.0)
- cloudfoundry-service_broker (1.0.2)
- cloudfoundry-stager (1.0.5)
- cloudfoundry (1.3.1)
- cloudfoundry_service (1.2.2)
- database (1.3.10)
- dnsmasq (0.1.0)
- exim4-light (0.1.1)
- gbp-cookbook (1.0.3)
- geminabox (0.1.2)
- glance (2012.1.1)
- glassfish (0.5.20)
- horizon (2012.1.1)
- hosts_file (0.1.0)
- hostsfile (0.2.3)
- iis (1.3.6)
- java (1.8.0)
- jpackage (1.0.0)
- keystone (2012.1.1)
- kibana (0.1.2)
- krb5 (0.1.0)
- line (0.2.5)
- maven (0.13.0)
- mercurial (1.1.2)
- mongodb-10gen (0.1.7)
- monit_bin (0.3.0)
- nats (1.0.2)
- newrelic (0.4.2)
- nexus (0.18.3)
- nfs (0.3.1)
- nginx (1.1.4)
- nodejs (1.0.2)
- nova (2012.1.1)
- pbulider (1.0.3)
- percona (0.12.2)
- phpunit (0.0.3)
- pkg-build (0.1.7)
- postgis (0.2.2)
- rabbitmq (1.8.0)
- redis2 (0.4.6)
- repmgr (0.1.2)
- rng-tools (1.1.0)
- rsyslog (1.5.0)
- selinux (0.5.6)
- snmp (0.4.0)
- splunk (0.0.9)
- squid (0.2.2)
- sudo (2.0.4)
- supervisor (0.4.0)
- texlive (0.2.0)
- ubuntu (1.1.0)
- whitelist-node-attrs (1.1.0)
- xquartz (0.1.0)
- yum (2.1.0)
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