Ohai Chefs. We’ve released knife-ec2 0.8.0, now available for gem install on your workstation. This release includes improvements around connectivity options for the bootstrap process, particularly for VPC instances. THANK YOU! to all of our contributors for your work on this release, and also to everyone who took the time to report defects.

This Wednesday, we are joining with Clogeny for Chef : The Path to Full Automation, an evening of discussions centered around DevOps. Tickets are free and would love see you there. Additional information and registration is available on Eventbrite: http://www.eventbrite.

Introducing Chef Metal 0.2! Chef Metal is a framework that lets you manage your clusters with Chef the same way you manage machines: with recipes. Combined with the power of Chef, Metal’s machine resource helps you to describe, version, deploy and manage everything from simple to complex clusters with a common set of tools.

We need your help to shape the future of Open Source. We’ve joined with our friends at Black Duck Software and North Bridge, in partnership with Forrester Research Analyst Jeffrey Hammond, to deliver the 2014 Future of Open Source Survey!

I had the pleasure of being invited to participate in Target’s internal DevOpsDays this past Friday. The team at Target wanted to replicate the wildly successful, community led series of DevOpsDays that are held through out the world.

The following item is new for Enterprise Chef 11.1.2 and 1.4.8 and is a change from previous versions. opscode-webui Don’t log or email the Rails session or environment from the exception handler.

Dear Customers, On Wednesday morning we became aware of a misconfiguration of an exception handler for the Hosted Chef Management Console that caused username and password information for a small subset of our users to be leaked via email internally at Chef.

We’re still rolling with our blog series highlighting each of the #ChefConf workshops and today we take a look at Peter Bell‘s two half-day workshops: –        Git and GitHub Foundations –        Intermediate and Advanced Git and GitHub Tips and Tricks Peter is a contract member of the GitHub training team and is writing books on […]

We’re continuing Michael Hüttermann’s guest blog series on DevOps and its ability to streamline software development and delivery. Part two explains DevOps in a ‘nutshell’…see Part I and Part III for more. Part II.