One great thing about the Chef community is how various people have dreamed up ways to use Chef. One of the most popular patterns is the wrapper cookbook, first popularized by Awesome Chef Bryan Berry‘s blog post, How to Write Reusable Chef Cookbooks, Gangnam Style.

It is very exciting to announce the release of Test Kitchen 1.0.0 this week. This history of this project is long and winding but if you’re interested check out the Test Kitchen #ChefConf 2013 talk for the background. Test Kitchen is a test harness tool to execute your configured code on one or more platforms in isolation.

Earlier this month we held the third annual Opscode Community Summit. There, we shared some lessons we’ve learned about publishing and maintaining community cookbooks. For those that could not be there, we’d like to share them with you as well.

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“If roles are evil, what about Al-Qaeda?” You may laugh, but this is an actual quote from a session at the Opscode Community Summit this year.

We will be hosting the sixth – and final – installment of our Chef Fundamentals Webinar Series this Thursday at 10am PT with Module 6: Roles, Community Cookbooks, and Further Resources.

Opscode European Revenue Grows 400 Percent in Past 12 Months with Klarna, PaddyPower, and Schuberg Philis Among Customers Using Enterprise Chef™ to Automate Business to Hyper-Speed; Leading UK-Based IT Recruitment Firm Reports Opscode Chef in Top Ten IT Contract ‘Skills on the Rise’ in Q3 2013 LONDON – November 13, 2013 – From Velocity Europe, […]

Deploys Opscode Enterprise Chef™ to Automate Large-Scale Virtualized Infrastructure, Empowering Engineering with Service-Oriented Architecture to Turbo-Charge Application Development LONDON – November 13, 2013 – From Velocity Europe, Opscode®, the leader in New IT automation, today announced Klarna, one of Europe’s fastest growing companies and a leader in online payments, has deployed Opscode Enterprise Chef™ to […]

Make your plans now to cook up awesome with us at #ChefConf 2014! This will be the largest and best #ChefConf yet and we’ve got some really amazing things planned for this year. A great set of workshops, amazing keynotes, and session tracks featuring awesome members of the community!