New Solution Delivers all the Benefits of Cloud Infrastructure Automation Inside the Firewall SEATTLE, Wash – June 14, 2011 Opscode, Inc., the leader in cloud infrastructure automation, today at the O’Reilly Velocity Conference in Santa Clara, Calif., announced its latest infrastructure automation solution, Opscode Private Chef™ (OPC).

The third annual Southeast LinuxFest is this weekend (June 10-12, 2011) in Spartanburg, SC and Opscode is excited to be in attendance. At 10:15 am on Sunday morning our very own Seth Chisamore will be presenting “Deploying Fully Automated, Highly Available, Django Application Stacks with Chef“.

Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP, slathered with a rich load-balanced layer of Mediawiki on top… Mmmm yum, comfort food. Using our most excellent application and database cookbooks from the Quickstart series we build a 4-course, data-driven, LAMP Stack meal. We’ve written it up and screencast a walk-through to help you learn Chef.

This is an update on the blog post we made a couple weeks back regarding the future of Opscode’s cookbooks and cookbooks repository. We are going to switch master branch to reflect the changes that have been made in the 0.10.0 branch this week.

Here at Opscode we have the stated goal of creating “Infrastructure Automation for the Masses”. We won’t rest until Chef manages EVERYTHING! And everything includes a whole lot more than Linux servers – it also includes our brethren on the Windows platform.

Enstratus is both a big supporter of Chef and one of the leading Cloud Management companies. As such, we were delighted to see the recent work they have done providing Chef integration as part of the newest Enstratus release.

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.