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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!

You'll find more information about these and other upcoming technical conferences on the Technical Conferences page of the Opscode wiki.

Special Offers

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.

Opscode Training

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

Cookbook News

Stats

Cookbooks on the Community Site - 984
Knife Plugins on RubyGems.org - 127
Chef Gems available on RubyGems.org - 154

New Cookbooks

  • beaver - nd - Installs/Configures beaver — the python daemon that munches on logs and sends their contents to logstash.
  • bind9-chroot - tnarik - Installs/Configures bind9 with chroot and hiding CHAOS INFORMATION
  • crypto-coin - andruby - This cookbook provides a LWRP to compile bitcoin based crypto coins.
  • pgbouncer - owynrichen - This cookbook provides a Chef LWRP that sets up a basic PGBouncer connection pool that fronts a Postgresql database. It has example configuration for integration on client machines, exposing a local *nix socket that routes to a downstream database on another host.
  • racoon-ipsec-osx - jtimberman - Manages racoon, the IKE key management daemon used for IPSec on Mac OS X (and other platforms).
  • re2 - llonchj - Installs/Configures re2
  • selfsigned_certificate - cgravier - This cookbook allow you to create a self signed certificate using openssl. The certificate is configured using the provided attributes.
  • sox_mp3 - edcanvas - Installs/Configures sox_mp3
  • windows-hostname - kreisys - Sets hostname and FQDN of a windows node.

Updated Cookbooks

New and Updated Chef and Knife Gems

  • berkshelf (2.0.0) - Manages a Cookbook's, or an Application's, Cookbook dependencies
  • busser-serverspec (0.1.1) - A Busser runner plugin for Serverspec
  • chef-zero (1.3) - Self-contained, easy-setup, fast-start in-memory Chef server for testing and solo setup purposes
  • kitchen-openstack (0.4.0) - A Test Kitchen OpenStack Nova driver
  • knife-essentials (1.2) - Universal knife verbs that work with your Chef repository
  • knife-flip (0.1.7) - A knife plugin to move a node, or all nodes in a role, to a specific environment
  • knife-hitori (0.0.1) - knife subcommand
  • knife-sharp (0.4.0) - Sharpen your knife
  • knife-solo_data_bag (0.4.0) - A knife plugin for working with data bags and chef solo
  • knife-update (0.0.6) - A small collection of knife plugins to ease the process of safely updating chef in a setup with hundreds of nodes.
  • knife-vsphere (0.7.0) - VMware vSphere Support for Chef's Knife Command
  • pocketknife_ec2dream (0.1.9) - pocketknife is a devops tool for managing computers running chef-solo, powered by Opscode Chef.
  • ridley (1.0.0) - A reliable Chef API client with a clean syntax
  • vagrant-chefzero (0.3.13) - Vagrant chef-zero provisioner plugin
  • vagrant-librarian-chef (0.1.0) - A Vagrant plugin to install Chef cookbooks using Librarian-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.