Technical conferences are a great way to get energized about doing awesome things! You participate in inspiring sessions, see some amazing work being done at other companies, and meet with members of your tribe. At the end of the conference you’re ready to get down to business and ship some code!

This morning, we added a new team member to the Opscode family, Barry Crist, our new Vice President, Enterprise. Barry was previously CEO of Likewise, a company with a strong open source to enterprise go-to-market model that had wide industry reach including OEM agreements with VMware, Dell, HP, Riverbed, and EMC.

Here’a a quick run down of some of the amazing events going on in the Chef community this week: Monday DevOps/Cloud SIG – Lake Mary, FL Portland DevOps user group meeting Tuesday Food Fight Show – Elasticsearch Chef Cafe in Austin, TX Chef Introductory Workshop – Minneapolis – SOLD OUT Wednesday Triangle DevOps – Learn […]

Editor’s Note: A previous version of this blog post recommended setting cookbook\_path to nil in the knife.rb file. That line has been removed, as it causes an error in newer version of knife/chef-client. Either do not set the cookbook\_path or do not set it to nil when following these instructions.

In this post, we’re going to look at how easy it is to get up and running with a Chef Server on a brand new Ubuntu 12.04 or CentOS 6.3 system. We’ll also explore the new Chef Server management tool, chef-server-ctl, and the new configuration file.

Another week, another tale of some Awesome Chefs in our Community doing big things with Chef. This time, the story comes from right here in Opscode’s backyard of Seattle.

We’re heading into our second annual user conference and we couldn’t be more excited about our speaker lineup and sponsoring partners. But, before I get into all that, please remember Early Bird Pricing ends March 10th, so register today!

It has been an eventful February here at Opscode.  As many of you know, on February 4th, we announced that Facebook is using Private Chef to automate the configuration and management of its web-tier infrastructure. That is some hefty validation of Chef at dramatic scale.

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