It’s Chef 0.8.8 time, and the big news this release is that we fixed an issue where the remote directory resource was broken for users of Chef Solo. Sorry, guys – we’ve added tests to ensure this won’t happen again in the future.

Cloud Operations Bootcamp: Culture View more presentations from Jesse Robbins.

Robert Scoble interviews Seth Chisamore of MaxMedia (@schisamo) and our very own John Willis on the Building43 blog! In this interview, Seth explains how MaxMedia uses Chef and the Rackspace Cloud to turn their hosting business into a profit center while providing great services for their customers. Check out the full post!

It’s a fast and furious release cycle! We’ve cut Chef 0.8.6 due to a change that accidentally broke users of Fedora – and Ian Meyer from Etsy stepped up and fixed it. His reward is being your Chef 0.8.6 MVP – congratulations, Ian!

Ohai! We’ve got a new release of Ohai for you, with a pair of much-needed fixes. The first is by our release MVP Tollef Fog Heen (whose just racking up the MVP’s lately – clearly, he is destined for the Hall of Fame.

A mere day and some change behind Chef 0.8.2 comes the piping hot Chef 0.8.4! This releases MVP is Tollef Fog Heen, who realized that the validation and web-ui keys were being created with an insecure file permission.

Ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of the entire Chef community, I’m proud to announce the release of Chef 0.8.2.

Welcome to Ohai version 0.4.0! Your MVPs for this release are Mark Giammarco for adding SuSE support, and Jan Zimmek for adding ArchLinux support. Thanks, guys! In addition, this version fixes a compatibility issue with the latest version of the JSON gem.

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