We are pleased to announce that the updated Debian/Ubuntu packages of Chef 0.9 have been posted to the new apt.opscode.com repository! Please be aware of the following changes in the packaging if you’re using the older 0.7 packages from Ubuntu 9.10/10.04 or the old apt.opscode.com. chef-server-slices is deprecated, and split into chef-server-api and chef-server-webui.

This is one of the clips from Adam’s now famous "Choose Your Own Adventure" Velocity 2010 talk.

Chef 0.9.4 Released I’m happy to announce another release of Chef. This time around, we found a backwards compatibility issue right after publishing 0.9.2, so we’re moving on up to 0.9.4. These are bugfix releases that address the issues we’ve found since releasing 0.9.0 last week. Fixed in 0.9.

Michael Cote and I run an IT Management podcast series. I like to say we are the "Click and Clack" of IT management. On this latest podcast we were able to track down Adam Jacob and Chris Brown and ask them some great questions about Velocity 2010 and the new Opscode announcements.

Opscode Unveils Commercial Platform Opscode Platform Puts Advanced Infrastructure Automation Within Reach for Organizations of all Sizes. SEATTLE, Wash – June 21, 2010 – Opscode, Inc., a cloud infrastructure automation company, today announced the limited beta release of the Opscode Platform, the world’s first hosted configuration management service.

OPSCODE CLOSES $11 MILLION SERIES B ROUND Battery Ventures Leads New Round in Infrastructure Automation Start-up; Sunil Dhaliwal to Join the Opscode Board of Directors SEATTLE, Wash – June 21, 2010 – Opscode, Inc., a cloud infrastructure automation company, announced today that it has closed an $11 million Series B round of funding.

Chef 0.9.0 Released Today I’m very happy to announce the release of Chef 0.9.0, Ohai 0.5.6, and mixlib-config 1.1.2. Chef 0.9.0 Brings some new features, a ton of under-the-hood cleanup, and lays the foundation for some big improvements ahead on the roadmap.

Join us for a Live Webcast – Chef Tips and Tricks Date: Thursday, June 10, 2010 Time: 11:00 am, Pacific Daylight Time (San Francisco, GMT-07:00) Instructor: Joshua Timberman, Sr.

SEATTLE, WA—(Marketwire – 06/02/10) – Opscode, Inc., a cloud infrastructure automation company, today announced the appointment of two new technical evangelists: Adrian Cole, founder of jclouds.org, an open source cloud framework that enables developers to reuse their java code, and Aaron Peterson, a 14-year systems and network veteran.