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Food Fight Show News

Welcome to the second issue of the What's Cookin' newsletter!

Latest Episodes

Upcoming Episodes

We are preparing episodes on the following topics and would love your help generating questions, identifying panelists, etc.

In the News

Upcoming Meetup Groups and Events

Meetup with people in your neighborhood at one of the following meetup groups.

Speaking Opportunities

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!

Special Offers

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#ChefConf 2013

#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. The CFP is closing very soon!

Cookbook News

Stats

Cookbooks on the Community Site - 801
Knife Plugins on RubyGems.org - 90
Chef Gems available on RubyGems.org - 94

New Cookbooks

  • Obfsproxy - dlshad - Install Obfsproxy Server on Debian, Centos RedHat and Ubuntu. obfsproxy is a tool that attempts to circumvent censorship, by transforming the Tor traffic between the client and the bridge. This way, censors, who usually monitor traffic between the client and the bridge, will see innocent-looking transformed traffic instead of the actual Tor traffic.
  • authconfig - hikeit - Manages authentication configuration CentOS / RHEL 5.x. Auth libraries supported in this recipe: winbind, nis, wins, ldap, kerberos, hesiod, smartcard, and more...
  • bash-completion - phlipper - Installs the bash-completion package from http://caliban.org/bash/. Currently only targeting Ubuntu platform. It's not complicated and would work on other platforms, but that can come later.
  • chef_ec2_cli_tools - anujbiyani - Installs/Configures chef_ec2_cli_tools
  • cmake - phlipper - Installs cmake, the cross-platform, open-source build system.
  • cookbook_pusher - computerlyrik - Automagically pushes your public cookbooks from github to opscode community
  • etherpad - computerlyrik - Installs etherpad or etherpad-lite
  • fqdn - someara - Include this recipe in your run_list, and it will make sure that your node has a properly configured FQDN. It is opinionated, so that your hostname equals your FQDN like Bob intended. You can override this behavior by setting the attribute 'fqdn_as_hostname' to false.
  • github_backup - computerlyrik - Backup your github repositories with help of awesome octokit gem
  • gosu - phlipper - Installs gosu 2D game development library for the Ruby and C++ programming languages.
  • grc - phlipper - Installs grc "Generic Colouriser" to add "stylesheets" and personal color settings for your favorite terminal apps.
  • htop - phlipper - Installs htop an interactive process viewer for Linux.
  • libqt4 - phlipper - Installs libqt4. Qt is a cross-platform C++ application framework. Qt's primary feature is its rich set of widgets that provide standard GUI functionality.
  • lighttpd - computerlyrik - Installs/Configures lighttpd
  • linux-gamer - jackl0phty - Installs/Configures open source games on GNU/Linux.
  • liquid-feedback - computerlyrik - beta Sets up a liquid democracy tool: LiquidFeedback. Based on Lua and Postgresql
  • mdadm - phlipper - This cookbook installs mdadm Management tool for Linux md/raid.
  • newrelic-sysmond - phlipper - Installs newrelic-sysmond, New Relic for Server Monitoring.
  • oh-my-zsh-solo - vaskas - A chef-solo compatible cookbook to install and configure oh-my-zsh framework for the specified users
  • pdepend - devesc - Installs/Configures pdepend
  • pdf2image - phlipper - Installs pdf2image. PDF2Image is a conversion library specialized in converting PDF documents to images (png,jpeg,..) and exports text data in XML and JSON format.
  • personality - phlipper - This cookbook customizes the motd/login feedback (for Ubuntu servers only at the moment) by adding fortunes, read by adorable cowsay characters, wrapped up in rainbow lolcat sprinkles.
  • phpcb - devesc - This cookbook provides an easy way to install phpcb, PHP Code Browser.
  • phpcpd - devesc - This cookbook provides an easy way to install phpcpd, PHP Copy/Paste Detector.
  • phpcs - devesc - This cookbook provides an easy way to install phpcs, PHP Code Sniffer.
  • phpdcd - devesc - This cookbook provides an easy way to install phpdcd, PHP Dead Code Detector.
  • phpdoc - devesc - This cookbook provides an easy way to install phpdoc, PHP Documentor.
  • phploc - devesc - This cookbook provides an easy way to install phploc, PHP Lines Of Code.
  • phpmd - devesc - This cookbook provides an easy way to install phpmd, PHP Mess Detector.
  • pygments - phlipper - Installs Pygments Python syntax highlighter.
  • scout-agent - phlipper - Installs the Scout Server Monitoring Agent.
  • smackage - dmalikov - Smackage installation with smlnj and mlton configuring
  • traceroute - phlipper - Installs traceroute The traceroute utility displays the route used by IP packets on their way to a specified network (or Internet) host.
  • uck - phlipper - Installs UCK - Ubuntu Customization Kit. UCK is a tool that helps you customizing official Ubuntu Live CDs (including Kubuntu/Xubuntu and Edubuntu) to your needs. You can add any package to the live system, for example language packs, or applications.
  • wifi-networking - phlipper - Installs WiFi Networking Components for Ubuntu.
  • xfce4 - phlipper - Installs Xfce 4. Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for UNIX-like operating systems. It aims to be fast and low on system resources, while still being visually appealing and user friendly.
  • xpdf - phlipper - Installs Xpdf. Xpdf is an open source viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. (These are also sometimes also called 'Acrobat' files, from the name of Adobe's PDF software.) The Xpdf project also includes a PDF text extractor, PDF-to-PostScript converter, and various other utilities.
  • zentyal - guilhemfr - Installs/Configures Zentyal
  • zeus-zxtm - ct - Chef recipe for installing the Zeus (now Stingray) Traffic Manager.
  • zip - phlipper - Installs zip and unzip. With the exception of multi-volume archives (ie, .ZIP files that are split across several disks using PKZIP's /& option), this can handle any file produced either by PKZIP, or the corresponding InfoZIP zip program.

Updated Cookbooks

The Food Fight Show is brought to you by [Bryan Berry](https://twitter.com/bryanwb) and [Nathen Harvey](https://twitter.com/nathenharvey) with help from other hosts and the awesome community of Chefs.

The show and this newsletter are sponsored, in part, by Opscode. Additional sponsorship opportunities are available.

Feedback, suggestions, and questions: [email protected] or http://github.com/foodfight/showz.