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Here at Opscode, we think of the Chef recipe DSL, or domain-specific language, as being quite straightforward to learn. Despite the fact that under the hood it’s all Ruby, you most definitely do not need to know Ruby to use Chef.

We had a blast @VMworld last week and talked to a bunch of folks looking for a ‘how to’ tutorial on using Opscode Chef to manage VMware infrastructure. Well, look no further. Next Thur.

Hello Chefs, we’re happy to announce the release of Chef 10.28.0 today. This minor release backports a few features from Chef 11.6 and includes some important bug fixes as well.

The Chef Community and its many awesome contributors keep doing amazing things. Case in point, our friend Matthias Marschall (a software engineer ‘made in Germany’ and CTO at gutefrage.net GmbH helping run Germany’s biggest Q&A site)  just published his new book “Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook”.

Chef has had a long history of support for Microsoft Windows as a platform, dating back to 2011 when Opscode first released the knife-windows plugin to bootstrap and manage Windows servers.

Today I was appointed Opscode’s CEO. Mitch Hill is stepping down due to a personal health battle. Mitch remains part of Opscode both as a Board member and as a special advisor. The entire Opscode crew is deeply grateful for his leadership and guidance during the past two years.

SEATTLE – August 26, 2013 – Opscode® today announced Barry Crist has been appointed as CEO and Chairman of the company’s Board of Directors. Former CEO Mitch Hill is stepping down to address a personal health issue and will remain on the company’s Board. Mr.

What’s in a name? Turns out, a lot. Today we announced that Private Chef and Hosted Chef are now renamed to Enterprise Chef™ offered both as on-premise software and as a hosted service. So what?