A few weeks ago I was invited to appear on Mike Adams’ “On The Money”, a business radio show on KKNW 1150.  It was a fun conversation.  A transcript of my segment is below: Mike Adams: Welcome back to “On the Money.” You’re listening to Mike Adams of Adams Financial Concepts.

At Opscode, we often talk about the benefits that result from building a ‘fully automated infrastructure’. When systems engineers and developers combine datacenter-level APIs to provision new servers with configuration management tools like Chef to make those new servers do useful things, the results are often amazing.

Chef 0.10.2 and 0.9.18 have been released on RubyGems. This is a critical security update to Chef Server and it is recommended that all open-source Chef Server users upgrade as soon as possible. Users of Opscode’s Hosted Chef and Private Chef are not affected. For those unable to upgrade the patch is available on GitHub.

The 2011 Velocity Conference has begun!  Opscode’s presence began with a great Chef presentation by Christopher Brown, Joshua Timberman, Matt Ray, Aaron Peterson and Seth Chisamore.  If you are attending Velocity, make sure to stop by Opscode’s booth (#505/507) to say hello and pick up Opscode’s new Rule The Cloud stickers and T-shirt.

New Products, Growing Partner Ecosystem and Expanding Customer Base Underscore New Requirements for IT Management Amid Shift to Cloud Computing SEATTLE, Wash – June 14, 2011 Opscode, Inc., today at the O’Reilly Velocity Conference in Santa Clara, Calif.

New Quickstarts Feature and Enterprise-Class Service Level Agreement with Support Provide Instant Access to Dynamically Scalable, Fully Managed Cloud Infrastructure Automation SEATTLE, Wash – June 14, 2011 Opscode, Inc., the leader in cloud infrastructure automation, today at the O’Reilly Velocity Conference in Santa Clara, Calif.

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.