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Awsome Cloud Meetup 02/09/2010 – Chef 101

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

Awsome Cloud Meetup 02/09/2010 – Chef 101
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Does Automation Replace Humans?

Monday, February 8th, 2010

Somewhere in a land a long time ago, there was this steel factory in the heartland of Pennsylvania.  In this steel factory there was a bulletin board on a factory floor room, and on the board were two large posters.  The first poster was a reminder of the upcoming layoffs on Friday with procedures for [...]

Cloud Cafe #37 Elastra With Stu Charlton

Friday, August 14th, 2009

In this podcast I had the opportunity to talk to Stuart Charlton of Elsatra.  Stuart is the lead product architect for Elastra Corporation.  He is one of the pioneers helping to define this new area called “Cloud Brokers”.  In this podcast he was able to help define this new space for me as well as [...]

Cloud Computing and Open Source

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

Cloud Computing and Open Source
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Using Chef for Automated Infrastructure in the Cloud

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

Using Chef for Automated Infrastructure in the Cloud
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Note: I am an adviser for Opscode.

Velocity 09 – Adam Jacob of Opscode and Chef

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

Hell’s Kitchen – Chef vs. Puppet

Friday, February 6th, 2009

One of the Chef’s respond to Luke’s original post about “Chef”.  See for yourself…
Chef vs. Puppet

Hell’s Kitchen

Sunday, January 18th, 2009

Seems like a “Cloud Orchestration” storm is a brewing out there:  Here are some of the links I have seen in regards to Chef and Puppet.

Is anybody else confused about Chef ?

Chef: Suck on my chocolate salty balls

Can you smell what the Puppet is cookin’?

configuration management with chef announced

Opscode announces Chef, a Puppet competitor

Cool Hand Luke Speaks about Puppet and Chef

Saturday, January 17th, 2009

Luke Kanies, founder of Reductive Labs (Puppet), has a very classy response to the new Opscode Chef announcement.  I agree with most of his summary and in the end it will be the “field” that will determine their fate and not the blogs.  However, I though about the DSL differences a little more, and I [...]

Cloud Cafe #31 – Opscode Introduces Chef

Friday, January 16th, 2009

It was a busy day for Adam Jacob the CTO of the startup Opscode. He spent the day trying to push out the first release of an exciting new “Cloud Orchestration” product while fighting internet provider/bandwidth issues and pesty geeks like me. However, at the end f the day we got this fantastic [...]