Jesse Robbins (Opscode CEO) is interviewed by O’Reilly Media on Cloud, Government, and Emergency Management @ Gov2.0 Expo 2010 Also see Jesse’s “High Level Bit” keynote speech at the Web2.0 Summit on the Pattern of Disaster Technology Innovation.

Gov 2.0: Scaling, Automation, & Management in the Cloud View more presentations from Jesse Robbins.

OpsCamp San Francisco 2010 Panel Discussion from dev2ops.org on Vimeo. "Unpanel" discussion that kicked off OpsCamp San Francisco (May 15, 2010) Topics covered include "DevOps", "Repository management and dependencies", "Security is not compliance", "Provisioning management", "Load balancing across datacenters/clouds", and more!

We ran our third Opscamp this weekend in San Francisco.  Like the Austin Opscamp we ran back in January, this one was great.   We had over 150 people registered and wound up with about 100 actual attendees.  GWOS provided the facility and did a great job with breakfast and lunch.

Hi, my name is John Willis, and I am the VP of Training, Services, & Evangelism (TSE) at Opscode.  I have been on-board for about three months and have been very busy building a team, creating our first materials, and getting everything off the ground.

Please join us for a one hour presentation called “Introduction to Chef”. The presentation is a free Web based session that will include a fifteen minute Q&A.

We have published new Amazon EC2 AMIs for Ubuntu 10.04 with Chef 0.8.16. The identifiers are: ami-17f51c7e (Ubuntu 10.04, 32bit, Chef 0.8.16) ami-eff51c86 (Ubuntu 10.04, 64bit, Chef 0.8.16) The wiki page is updated with the AMI ID’s and now includes instructions on how you can roll your own AMIs.

It’s Chef release time again! Today we bring you 0.8.16, which fixes bugs we’d missed in 0.8.14. Akzhan Abdulin is your MVP for fixing a bug in cookbook display in the Web UI. Thanks, Akzhan!

May 10, 2010 — Christopher Brown joins Opscode from Microsoft, where he was a Director of Engineering for the Edge Computing Network within Global Foundation Services. Prior to Microsoft, Christopher was a Founding Member, Architect, and Lead Developer for Amazon.coms Elastic Compute Cloud (“EC2”).