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Food Fight Show News

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 Groups:

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

Opscode Training

Chef training in Europe! - Join us September 12-13 in München, Germany for a Chef 2 Day Fundamentals Workshop. Discount code FOODFIGHT saves you 100 Euro!

Use promotional code 'FOODFIGHT' to save 10% off Chef Introductory Workshops in New York City, Boston in August or October, DC in September and in October (Windows), San Francisco, Seattle, and NYC (Windows).

Aaron Peterson is also offering some three-day Chef Fundamentals classes in San Francisco. Join him November 20-22.

Cookbook News

Stats

Cookbooks on the Community Site - 1087
Knife Plugins on RubyGems.org - 140
Chef Gems available on RubyGems.org - 188

New Cookbooks

  • SysinternalsBginfo - scmcdonnell - Downloads Sysinternals Bginfo (latest version by default), unzips it, installs it and configures it on the remote machine. The cookbook will also allow configuration of the BgInfo data as well as set a configurable wallpaper image for BgInfo data to be displayed.
  • chocolatey-installer - joefitzgerald - This cookbook allows you to provide an list of package names to be installed by chocolatey, in order.
  • media - arangamani - This cookbook will setup the media devices on a server which will ideally act as a file/media server. Initially it will be used to mount external devices and add then as NFS shares.
  • mineos - kaimi - Installs/Configures mineos, a minecraft server distribution, on Ubuntu.
  • minidlna - arangamani - Installs/Configures minidlna
  • motd - chr4 - Installs/Configures motd
  • nodebrew - linyows - Installs and manages your versionsf Node.js in Chef with nodebrew
  • npm_registry - coryroloff - Installs and configures an NPM package registry using the official NPM project layout.
  • packer - emilsit - Installs Packer using the ark cookbook.
  • selenium-grid - curio - Installs/Configures Selenium Grid nodes & hubs.
  • sqlce - joefitzgerald - Installs/Configures Microsoft SQL Server Compact 4.0 SP1
  • stackdriver - dlaube1 - Installs/Configures stackdriver
  • chef-whitelist - This library enables easy rollout of changes on a per host basis. The whitelist is stored in a data bag and can contain single hostnames or roles. Hostnames are checked first and can contain glob patterns to enable similarly named hostgroups. If none of the hostnames match, all roles in the roles array are checked whether the host has one of them applied.

Updated Cookbooks

New and Updated Chef and Knife Gems

  • ahamid-soloist (0.9.3) - Soloist is an easy way of running chef solo, but it's not doing much.
  • berkshelf-solo (0.0.2) - Makes Berkshelf more friendly to chef-solo by generating chef-solo folder layout
  • chef-undev (0.1.0) - Chef client patches for undev
  • fog (1.15.0) - The Ruby cloud services library. Supports all major cloud providers including AWS, Rackspace, Linode, Blue Box, StormOnDemand, and many others. Full support for most AWS services including EC2, S3, CloudWatch, SimpleDB, ELB, and RDS.
  • knife-backup (0.0.8) - Chef knife plugins to help backup and restore chef servers
  • knife-google (1.1.0) - Google Compute Engine Support for Chef's Knife Command
  • knife-joyent (0.3.3) - Joyent CloudAPI Support for Chef's Knife Command
  • knife-role-spaghetti (0.0.5) - This knife plugin extends the knife role command.
  • knife-scrub (0.1.2) - Collection of knife plugins to remove orphaned objects from chef-server.
  • knife-whisk (2.0.1) - A utility for quickly whipping up new servers in a team environment.
  • soloist-rvm (0.0.1) - Makes running chef-solo possible.
  • soloist (1.0.1) - Makes running chef-solo easy.
  • strainer (3.2.2) - Run isolated cookbook tests against your chef repository with Strainer.
  • test-kitchen-provisioners (0.1) - A collection of helpful provisioniners for working with Test Kitchen
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.

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