Here’s the issue: we love our text editors and version control systems, but, despite all the indespensible things these tools do for us, they sometimes leave behind temporary or data files that we don’t want to distribute to every host in our infrastructure. Before Chef 0.

Hello Chefs! Once again, the folks at White Pages will host a Seattle area Chef users meetup, and we’d love to see you there! Opscode will be in attendance, and will also present a tour of features in the highly anticipated Chef 0.10 release. Pizza and beverages will be provided by Opscode.

We have a maintenance release of Ohai for you today. Josh Pasqualetto found a regression in the EC2 plugin that was preventing nested data from being collected and provided the important fix. That makes him the MVP for this release! Thanks for getting right on that Josh.

Chef 0.10 Preview: Knife Plugins knife began as a simple thor script created by Joshua Sierles of 37signals. As soon as we saw it, we knew it was such a great idea that we had to incorporate it into Chef. With a bit of a redesign, Chef 0.

Chef 0.10 recently hit the release candidate phase of the release process, so I’d like to give you all a preview of the new features in Chef while we’re finalizing the code. The biggest new feature in Chef 0.10 is environment support, so we’ll start there.

Several members of the Opscode team will be at the Bay Area Chef  User Group Meetup on April 26th in Mountain View.  In addition to general Chef Q&A and hacking, we will plan to discuss the newest version of Chef.  Join us and share in the Chef 0.10 knowledge!

Next Wednesday April 27th at 10am PT, Jaspersoft and Full360 will be demonstrating elasticBI, Full360’s powerful and integrated business intelligence suite.  ElasticBI features Jaspersoft’s BI offering running on a Vertica database.  It is delivered on AWS and and built using Chef and the Opscode Platform.

Deb packages for Chef 0.9.16 and Ohai 0.6.2, as well as the necessary dependencies that are not included in the distributions, have been uploaded to the Debian repository on apt.opscode.com. Instructions regarding how to use this repository can be found on the wiki. This update provides packages for the distribution releases listed below.

While we’re full steam ahead on Chef 0.10 here at Opscode, we know that upgrading a critical component of your infrastructure can take time. For that reason, we’re releasing some updates to Chef 0.9 to keep you running smoothly on 0.9 until you can upgrade.