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.

Brass Tacks: With our announcement today of integration with Google Compute Engine, yesterday’s news on “Chef for OpenStack”, and previous integration news with Azure and HP Cloud, Opscode Chef is now playing a central role in the best practices for building, deploying and managing public and private clouds across the entire waterfront of cloud providers.

SEATTLE, WA – June 28, 2012 – Opscode®, the leader in cloud infrastructure automation, today announced that Opscode Open Source Chef™, Hosted Chef™ and Private Chef™ solutions provide full integration with Google Compute Engine, delivering full stack infrastructure automation – from server provisioning and configuration management to continuous delivery of infrastructure and applications.

UPDATE: You can learn more about our work w/Intel in a blog post from Billy Cox. Opscode is pleased to announce the launch of our Chef for OpenStack project, a reference deployment for building and managing OpenStack clouds.

New Versioning We’ve reordered out versioning so instead of Chef 0.10.12 this is Chef 10.12.0. This is for the same reasons as our recent Ohai release.