This morning we made several exciting announcements. First, we changed our company name to Chef. While the Opscode name served us well, it is time to leave it behind. I like both the simplicity of Chef, as well as the clarity.

Scale Venture Partners Leads Over-Subscribed Round Including Citi Ventures and Follow-On Investments From Battery Ventures, DFJ, and Ignition Partners Company’s Third Quarter Sales Grow 250 Percent Year-Over-Year as Enterprises Adopt Chef to Move at the Speed of Customer Demand SEATTLE – December 9, 2013 – Chef™ (formerly Opscode), IT automation for speed and awesomeness, today […]

Curt Anderson Joins Chef as CFO, Tucker Callaway Joins Chef as VP of Enterprise Sales, and Tom Murphy Joins Chef as VP of Services SEATTLE – December 9, 2013 – Chef™ (formerly Opscode), IT automation for speed and awesomeness, today announced three new executive appointments during a period of accelerating company growth.

Commissioned Study Conducted by Independent Consulting Firm, and Based on a Survey of Fortune 1000 IT Professionals, Reveals an Industry Crisis Plus Signs of Hope, Thanks to Automation and DevOps SEATTLE – December 9, 2013 – Chef™ (formerly Opscode), IT automation for speed and awesomeness, today announced the publication of an October 2013 commissioned study […]

Ohai Chefs, Today we are releasing 10.30.2 & 11.8.2 of Chef Client as well as 1.3.0 of mixlib-shellout. Release highlights for 10.30.2 & 11.8.2: Omnibus packages of 10.30.2 & 11.8.2 now include ruby version 1.9.3-p484. This ruby version includes a fix to a published security vulnerability in Ruby. Check this for more details. 10.30.2 & 11.8.

I have some sad news for the Opscode community: Mitch Hill passed away yesterday morning after a difficult fight with cancer.  Mitch had a storied career at Accenture, Avanade, and most recently Opscode.

Today we are announcing the release of two add-on components for Enterprise Chef 11.0.2 – Management Console and Reporting. Management Console is a complete rewrite of the existing Chef web interface, providing a more action-oriented view of your infrastructure.

mixlib-config has a new minor release with save() and restore(). save will take any values the user has explicitly set and place them in a hash. This does not include defaults. A usage example with Chef::Config, which uses Mixlib::Config: [sourcecode language=”ruby”][/sourcecode] Chef::Config.log_level = ‘debug’ my_hash = Chef::Config.save # Returns { :log_level => ‘debug’ } Chef::Config.

This morning we released Enterprise Chef Server 11.0.2 and Chef Server 11.0.10.