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Opscode adds networking to Chef management capabilities |
August 19, 2013
Opscode has teamed up with Cisco Systems and Arista Networks to add networking features and has expanded its collaboration with Microsoft to broaden Windows integration for its renamed Enterprise Chef platform.Chef is used to automate IT management, but any management platform is only as useful as the products it control. To widen the appeal of Enterprise Chef, Opscode has announced partnerships with networking vendors Arista, Cisco as well as Juniper Networks.Working with Arista, Opscode has integrated Enterprise Chef with the company's Extensible Operating System (EOS). The two have developed a Chef cookbook with recipes for automating the configuration of link aggregation, vlans and physical networking ports.The cookbooks and recipes are written using the Ruby programming language and tell the Chef client how each node should be configured. The client, which is installed on every node, then does the actual configuration.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2046976/opscode-adds-networking-to-chef-management-capabilities.html#tk.rss_all
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