Calling all Pythonistas! Would you like to deploy Django apps with Chef? Then check out the latest in our Quickstart series, where we give you full instructions and an accompanying video on standing up a Django CMS multi-node instance in Amazon E2, with a load balanced app tier and separate MySQL server.

The following is a post from the folks at Cycle Computing, who are doing some mind-blowing work with Chef in HPC environments on Amazon Web Services. They were kind enough to let us cross post it here on the Opscode blog.

We have pushed out Chef 0.10 packages for Debian and Ubuntu to our repository. The wiki contains updated instructions, but I’d like to underscore the new repository naming convention. For Chef 0.9.x we have been using the following format for the repository: [sourcecode gutter=”false”] deb http://apt.opscode.

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.