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Food Fight Show News

Welcome to the tenth 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

New Meetup Group - DevOps hangops

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

RAMP will be held July 11-12 in Budapest, Hungary. Theo Schlossnagle (@postwait) will be the keynote speaker and speakers from Netflix, Yahoo, Dropbox, Percona and other great companies will present their experiences in building scalable systems. Budapest is beautiful in July and listeners of the Food Fight Show can register with discount code FOODFIGHTSHOW to save $50.

Special Offers

Opscode Training

Use promotional code 'FOODFIGHT' to save 10% off Chef Introductory Workshops in Austin, DC, San Francisco, London, and Boston.

Also and for the first time, there's going to be an Introductory Workshop in Berlin - celebrating this, use 'FOODFIGHT' to save 20% there.

Cookbook News

Stats

Cookbooks on the Community Site - 968
Knife Plugins on RubyGems.org - 126
Chef Gems available on RubyGems.org - 147

New Cookbooks

  • doozer - johnbellone - Manages doozerd, a highly available, consistent, distrbuted data store, and associated client libraries.
  • gdebi - bakins - Installs/Configures gdebi
  • jenkins_build - jskarbek - Build a complete Jenkins CI server.
  • opensmtpd - nd - Install and configure OpenSMTPD, the FREE implementation of the server-side SMTP protocol as defined by RFC 5321, with some additional standard extensions. It allows ordinary machines to exchange e-mails with other systems speaking the SMTP protocol.
  • ruby_pkg - tmatilai - Builds a ruby package using ruby_build and fpm
  • ruby_build - fnichol - Manages the ruby-build framework and its installed Rubies. A lightweight resources and providers (LWRP) is also defined.
  • rubygems-compatibility - sax - Fixes chef rubygems for 2.0 API compatibility for pre-11.6 chef-client. Chef's interactions with Rubygems (i.e. chef_gem) depends on the internals of Rubygems, which changed in version 2 of the API. This has been fixed in chef master and is targeted for release in 11.6. Until then, this cookbook brings in the new code to fix compatibility in order versions of the client.
  • searchef - fnichol - Chef cookbook to use Searchef, a library to stub Chef searches.
  • the_silver_searcher - markcornick - Installs/Configures The Silver Searcher

Updated Cookbooks

New and Updated Chef and Knife Gems

  • knife-backup (0.0.7) - Chef knife plugins to help backup and restore chef servers.
  • knife-cloudstack-fog (0.3.3) - Support for the Chef Knife command, leveraging FOG, for the Apache CloudStack / Citrix CloudPlatform API
  • knife-essentials (1.0.0) - Universal knife verbs that work with your Chef repository
  • knife-joyent (0.2.2) - Joyent CloudAPI Support for Chef's Knife Command
  • knife-nodefu (0.3.1) - A knife plugin for simple node creation automation
  • knife-reporting (0.1.0) - Knife plugin for OpsCode Reporting
  • knife-twitter (0.1.2) - knife-plugin for twitter.
  • knife-update (0.0.4) - A small collection of knife plugins to ease the process of safely updating chef in a setup with hundreds of nodes.
  • knife-xapi (0.5.3) - Xen API Support for Chef's Knife Command
  • pocketknife_ec2dream (0.1.8) - pocketknife is a devops tool for managing computers running chef-solo, powered by Opscode Chef. This is modified to work with EC2Dream Fogviz.
  • pocketknife_windows (0.1.5) - pocketknife is a devops tool for managing computers running chef-solo, powered by Opscode Chef.
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.