Chef Cookbook Testing and Continuous Integration
I’ve been really busy working with our customers on becoming better Chefs, but I was recently invited by Kevin Karwaski of the Chef-Boston meetup group to give a presentation on the state of Chef...
View ArticleCooking with Opscode Chef on Windows: The Vagrant Edition
A month ago, I presented a webinar entitled “Cooking on Windows with Chef” that demonstrates the power of Opscode Chef on Windows. If you missed the webinar, you can watch that recording here. One...
View ArticleYou have configuration management? Your hosts don’t need hostnames.
I often get asked how to automate host naming and/or DNS records using Chef. In fact, there was an individual in IRC today who asked some variation of the same question I always get: Currently I set...
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Migrating from Sympa to Google Groups for Business
One of my last projects for 2014 is to move Chef off our old Sympa mailing list server to Google Groups for Business. This migration was codified in Chef RFC 028 a few months ago, but we wanted to hold...
View ArticleJust What Does A Product Manager Do, Anyways?
Ever since I became a product manager at Chef in January, I’ve observed a fair amount of confusion and uncertainty in our industry about the role of product management. Although this is my first job as...
View ArticleFrom Product Management to Product Marketing
I start 2018 in a new role at Chef, as director of product marketing. Five years is a long time to work at one software company, never mind a startup. I find I have to constantly reinvent myself in...
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