Category: chef

Feed: Logicworks. Author: Lindsay Syhakhom; In the age of cloud, infrastructure has become a competitive differentiator. Companies that build scalable, repeatable, automated Azure clouds are able to get products to market faster and innovate with fewer risks. But many companies feel that this vision of innovation on the cloud is out of reach, mostly due to a lack of cloud expertise. In fact, 85% of IT executives say that greater cloud expertise would help them recoup the return on their cloud investment, and 71% believed their organizations have lost revenue due to a lack of cloud expertise. An Azure Managed ... Read More

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Ben Ford; We asked Deepak and Nigel to share some reasons they are excited about Contributor Summit this year and give us a preview of their opening talk. Remember these fresh faces? This was in 2011 at the very first Puppet Camp in Amsterdam. And look at them now. A lot has changed, but these two are still the heart of the Puppet community. They’ll be sharing the stage to talk about all the useful stuff we’ve been putting out, and past performance indicates, crack obscure jokes and digress into non sequiturs. They’ll also be ... Read More

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Ben Ford; One of Puppet’s big strengths is declarative automation – you model the desired end state of your infrastructure and Puppet does the hard work of enforcing it. This concept is quite powerful and has become the industry standard for configuration management. But sometimes your workflow doesn't quite fit into that pattern. Sometimes you really do need to deploy point-in-time changes, or mix imperative and declarative approaches together in a single workflow.With Bolt, we've learned from the lessons of Puppet and used those to design the next generation of infrastructure automation. Listen as Eric ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; The UK offers some of the best free content of any country in the world. Between the BBC serving shows such as Sherlock and MasterChef to UK-exclusive media such as Channel 4, there are a lot of reasons why you’d want to appear as if you’re in the UK. Of course, buying a plane ticket isn’t the only way to stream everything Britain has to offer. In this guide on how to get a British IP address, we’re going to show you a workaround for accessing all the content the UK has to offer. Over ... Read More