Video blog posts about Chef, Ohai, and other Opscode happenings.
A rock-solid private cloud makes elastic and configurable infrastructure-as-a-service immediately available to enterprises and their end users. Compute, Storage and Networking resources that previously took weeks to provision are now available in minutes and in abundant supply. With such great power, comes great responsibility….and a great need for infrastructure automation. When infrastructure-as-a-service works in tandem with easy-to-use configuration management, the result is a fully automa...
This is an introduction to Chef, an open source systems configuration management and integration framework. It covers why people use Chef, gives an overview of how it works, and explains the components of Chef cookbooks.
We will be doing a walk-through of every step needed to get started using Chef on the Opscode Platform from scratch. We will cover: the authentication portion of the sign-up process, installing chef on your management station, getting a local repository ready, connecting to the platform, basic use of the command line tools, transferring cookbooks from the cookbook site to your repo, looking briefly at a recipe, uploading cookbooks to your organization on the Opscode Chef platform, building a r...
Build a LAMP web application stack using Chef cookbooks available from the Cookbooks Community Site and the Opscode Platform. This video follows the guide at http://help.opscode.com/kb/otherhelp/build-a-lamp-stack. It assumes you followed the Getting Started Guide and have Chef installed.
Build a Django web application stack using Chef cookbooks available from the Cookbooks Community Site and the Opscode Platform. This video follows the guide at http://help.opscode.com/kb/otherhelp/build-a-django-stack. It assumes you followed the Getting Started Guide and have Chef installed.
Build a Ruby On Rails Radiant CMS application stack using Chef cookbooks available from the Cookbooks Community Site and the Opscode Platform. This video follows the guide here . It assumes you followed the Getting Started Guide and have Chef installed.
Build a Java web application stack using Chef cookbooks available from the Cookbooks Community Site and the Opscode Platform. This video follows the guide here . It assumes you followed the Getting Started Guide and have Chef installed.
Configuration management, automation and monitoring are a compelling combination. This session will explore the new Zenoss Core cookbook for Chef. The presentation will walk through cookbook and discuss the inner workings, while providing a live demonstration of a Zenoss server being deployed and automatically monitoring Chef-managed nodes.
Build a Nagios server and let Chef create and dynamically update its configuration as you add servers and new infrastructure roles in an entirely data-driven fashion, using Chef cookbooks available from the Cookbooks Community Site and the Opscode Platform. This video follows the guide here and assumes you followed the Getting Started Guide and have Chef installed.