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.

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.