Opscode is pleased to announce it has been selected out of a large pool of candidates as an MIT Innovation Showcase Finalist.  Finalists selected “represent cutting edge B2B solutions that combine both value and innovation to Enterprise IT”. The Showcase is schedule for May 18, 6:15 pm at the Kresge Auditorium.

If you are planning on attending Computerworld’s Open Source Business Conference you won’t want to miss Jesse’s participation in the panel discussion, “Open Source Built the Web, Now It’s Helping to Build the Cloud”.

We’re making changes to the Opscode cookbooks repository about what cookbooks we include and how we provide support for them. As a large number of people rely on our cookbooks, we want to be clear about the intentions of the repository, and how we plan to release and support cookbooks going forward.

After a lengthy testing process, we’re very proud to announce that Chef 0.10.0 is officially released. Chef 0.10 is a huge step forward, improving many aspects of the Chef experience.

Chef 0.10 Preview: Encrypted Data Bags Many server roles, such as databases, require setting up passwords as part of their configuration. A common pattern is to put such passwords in a data bag stored on the Chef server. Recipes can then access the data bag to automate the configuration.

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.