Ever wondered how Chef got its name? Or why the heck Chef was created in the first place? We’ve got answers for you.

Testing Chef cookbooks and infrastructure development is a hot topic these days. One of the keynote talks at ChefConf was Test-driven Development for Chef Practitioners. There’s even a book on the topic of Test Driven Infrastructure with Chef.

Integration of Opscode Chef™ with Rackspace Private Cloud Software Enables Businesses of All Sizes to Automate Deployment, Testing and Management of Private Clouds SEATTLE – August 15, 2012 – Opscode®, the leader in cloud infrastructure automation, today announced that Rackspace is delivering Opscode Chef™ with its new Rackspace Private Cloud Software.

Join us in the offices of Dreamhost for two great Chef events. That day is OpenStack LA with Opscode’s Senior Technical Evangelist Matt Ray at the Chef OpenStack Cookbooks Hack Day. Later that night is the LA DevOps Meetup with Presentations on Chef. The evening kicks off a 6:30pm with presentations.

Leading up to the June launch of Google Compute Engine, the Opscode team spent several months working with Google to build out a knife plugin for the new IaaS offering.

Comprehensive Services Offering Accelerates Customer Deployment, Streamlining Path to Productive Use; Industry Veteran Paul Edelhertz Joins Opscode as Vice President of Services SEATTLE – August 7, 2012 – Opscode®, the leader in cloud infrastructure automation, today announced its new services practice, featuring a wide range of enterprise-class service offerings – from infrastructure assessment to on-site […]

Opscode Joins Google Cloud Platform Partner Program July 24, 2012 — Opscode today announced it has joined the Google Cloud Platform Partner Program as a Technology Partner.  Opscode’s Chef is the configuration and automation framework used by thousands of leading web companies and enterprises.

At Opscode we have an internal Jenkins cluster that runs our test suites against each project as commits are pushed; pretty standard stuff.

We’re pleased to release a new, easy way to install the Chef client: using our Omnibus packaging. Omnibus is all about helping you spend spending less time installing Chef and more time building awesome, automated infrastructure.