What follows is the story of a bug we encountered during development of what will become the Chef 11 API server. The story unfolds as we began to integrate and test Bookshelf, a new component that handles cookbook file storage.

We are quite excited about getting this version of Chef released and into your hands. This release contains over seventy-five resolved issues from over thirty community members and some big new features from Opscode. Whyrun This version includes a new feature that we’ve talked about for a long time called “why-run.

We are participating in a webinar with our partners 10gen and Gazzang to talk about quickly spinning up secure versions of MongoDB using Opscode Chef and Gazzang zNcrypt.

We are excited to announce that all of the github repositories needed to build and run erchef are now public. The top-level git repository for Erchef, the open source Chef server written in Erlang, can be found at https://github.com/opscode/erchef/.

A few of you may have seen the news a couple months back that LAN, a leading Latin American airline, is using Opscode Hosted Chef to configure, manage and automate its data center supporting operations for LAN.com. What you haven’t seen (until now) is that as LAN.

During Chef Summit last year Chris Brown and myself committed to releasing the Erlang API server, aka “erchef”, under a open source license by the end of summer 2012. I’m very proud and happy to announce we’re in the final stages of making the release happen.

Company Releases New API Plugins for VMware vCloud, Terremark and BlueBox, Enabling Users to Flexibly Automate vCloud Infrastructure in Both Private and Public Cloud Environments SEATTLE – August 27, 2012 – Opscode®, the leader in cloud infrastructure automation, today announced Open Source Chef™, Hosted Chef™ and Private Chef™ all provide integration with VMware vCloud to […]

There are at least three great reasons for you to join us at CloudOpen in San Diego next week. First, our very own CTO, Christopher Brown, will be a keynote speaker on Friday, August 31st. Second, we’ll be hosting our popular Chef Introductory Workshop as a Co-Located Event on Tuesday, August 28th.

Opscode is hosting a series of 1-day, 100% hands on, Chef workshops all around the country over the next few months. This month, we’ll be in several locations in Californina on the heads and tails of VM World in San Francisco and CloudOpen in San Diego.