Category Archives: Chef

RightScale Compute 2013: Day One

Posted on April 26, 2013 by

Yesterday was the first day of RightScale Compute 2013, our annual conference in San Francisco. (You can also read about Day Two.) The day kicked off with a keynote address by James Staten, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester, … Continue reading →

Posted in Chef, Cloud Computing, Cloud Costs, Cloud Management, Microsoft, MySQL, OpenStack, PlanForCloud, RightScale Conference, S3, Security | Tagged , , , , , | 1 Comment

RightLink Agent Security Features and Upgrading from V4 RightImages

Posted on January 24, 2012 by

A fundamental problem in Cloud management is “how do I get the remote instance to do what I want it to?”. Taking this task on for a few systems is doable with a number of techniques, making it scale for … Continue reading →

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RightScale Release: MultiCloud ServerTemplates and RightImages…

Posted on September 8, 2011 by

This is Part Two of our release series.  A couple weeks ago, we announced a lot of goodies and while we’re going to talk about some new stuff today, be sure to come back next week for more about our … Continue reading →

Posted in Chef, Cloud.com, EC2, Eucalyptus, OpenStack, Rackspace, Releases | Tagged , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

RightScale ServerTemplate Library and Machine Tags

Posted on October 28, 2009 by

Yesterday’s release of the RightScale platform introduced two new features that I’m really excited about: the ServerTemplate Library and the use of Machine Tags on servers. (Ooops, I shouldn’t forget the new features for RackSpace, but I’ll talk about those … Continue reading →

Posted in AWS, Chef, Cloud Computing, EC2, Rackspace, RightLink | Tagged , , , | 1 Comment