As a Rackspace Certified Deployment Partner, Opscode’s Chef Serves to Deploy and Operate Large-Scale Cloud Infrastructure SEATTLE, Wash – November 7, 2011 — Opscode, Inc., the leader in cloud infrastructure automation, has today announced that it will be a Certified Deployment Partner for Rackspace® Cloud: Private Edition.

Here is a short “Chef 101” video introduction for Opscode Chef & Cloud Infrastructure Automation, covering what Chef is, how Chef works in public clouds, private clouds, and hybrid environments.

Thanks to everyone who participated in Opscode’s first Chef Cookbook Contest! We got some great submissions, all of which are now available on the Opscode Community Site. We liked the submissions so much we decided to give everyone who participated an Opscode T-shirt.

Release of New Chef Software Enables Automation of Windows Infrastructure, Including PowerShell, IIS, SQL Server and Windows Services SEATTLE – Oct. 24, 2011 – Opscode, Inc., the leader in cloud infrastructure automation, today announced its Chef™ software and commercially supported Hosted Chef™ and Private Chef™ will now provide infrastructure automation in Windows environments.

We’ve got more Ohai fixes coming out the door today. A while back Gordon Thiesfeld came up with a solution for fixing codepages in Ohai on Windows and Doug MacEachern came up with the patch. Laurent Désarmes provided additional checks to the code that sets ipaddress.

Unable to make the 3-Day Chef Fundamentals Training in Austin, but still thirst for training on the use of Chef? Let the Chef Wiki Guides quench your thirst!

Our good friends at Voxel have published a new knife plugin for provisioning and managing Voxel cloud instances. The gem is available on RubyGems and you can install it with gem install knife-voxel If you feel like digging into the code and seeing how it works, it’s all available on their GitHub page as well.

Mondays Ohai release had some regressions that we wanted to resolve right away, so we have another release for you today. Bryan W. Berry quickly found and resolved an issue where the new LSB support on Redhat based systems was returning platform as ‘redhatenterpriseserver’. Thanks for that speedy work Bryan, you are this releases MVP!

We’ve got a new release of Ohai, the tool that Chef uses to collect node data. Rubygems and Debian packages are available now. This release resolves an exception with StringIO that users of newer versions of systemu may be seeing.