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The Chef-branded distribution is still built from the same open source repositories that the CINC project is built from; it isn't proprietary. It has an additional EULA that requir…

With Chef 11 Server, the CouchDB component is removed for PostgreSQL. RabbitMQ is still there. Opscode provides a single package with everything above libc required to run the serv…

"ruby_block" is a Chef resource that allows you to execute your favorite ruby code as a separate resource. You can always drop to regular, plain Ruby, anywhere you like.

What the generated rayburst.sh script does: 1. Writes out configuration for the chef client. 2. Generates a node on the chef server with the specified "run list" (recipes selected …

If you write such awesome well tested code you won't mind being primary on-call to support it, since it won't break and you won't get paged.

I never said this is a security vulnerability in Rails. I said it is a bug (and a serious one). A bug, as you may be aware, is a mistake, fault, failure, problem or other unintende…

My point is that Rails does not take the high road of providing better, sane, secure defaults for people to build their applications. While the proposed solutions in the issues I l…

1. Yeah, the stop-gap "solution" is to white list a number of attributes in order to reduce the data set, because in the most common use case we see, there's only a few attributes …

Cookbooks are accessible via your private key, which Opscode Hosted Chef does not have a copy. You can choose to encrypt the contents of a data bag using a locally generated (on yo…

1. We are working on making the search more performance and use less memory. 2. Chef definitely does not discourage declarative configuration. Chef recipes include declarative reso…

(disclosure, I work for Opscode.) To be clear, those dependencies are required for running your own open source chef server. You can use chef without the server, as chef-solo, or l…

Hi! Actually in an upcoming release of Chef, you'll be able to do exactly that - manage Rackspace cloud nodes with the knife command-line tool. What that means is, you can launch n…